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When the World Fell
The world fell when money
Became more important
Than happiness
When beauty
Became so essential
We painted our faces and starved ourselves
When survival
Became easy for some
But not for others
When a first world country
Stopped giving
And took for itself
When peacemakers
Tried and failed to make peace
And were shot down by the guns of hate
When war
Became our way of
Saying: "I don't like you"
When want and greed
Overcame need, logic
And sanity
When we filled our atmosphere
With poison, our oceans
With trash
When children
Were abandoned
And adults cried in the streets
When we could not see
The sunset or the stars
Behind the skyscrapers of cities
When we stopped believing in ourselves
And gave up hope
And never fixed the broken world
When lies became easier than truth
Discrimination acceptable
When "all men are created equal" was no longer a truth
The world fell
When we couldn't look past
Our own problems
The world fell
When holding it up
Was left to few
The world fell
When humanity turned on itself
And love shattered into billions of pieces
So that some only had enough for themselves
And others had none
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