Paradise

Where is this PARADISE that we all search for,
that we pass up this world in want for more.
When did it get so bad that we had to believe,
that our only good thought was on wanting to leave.

So much on this earth that we never do see,
the changes it makes in our history.
This place full of wonder on land and at sea,
so many hidden places to set our souls free.

It took history so long to get us to here,
and still there is much we all have to fear.
Many worked and strived and what did they know,
they paid with their lives and their very soul.

Young ones were lost and the old very few,
doing what they could for what they thought was true.
We are learning all along what our past has to say,
hoping we will learn something from that day.

We have a long way to go if we are ever to find,
that PARADISE we lost-
from the one in our mind.

Diana Nelson 2004