Name Carved

Sometimes I just look at the stars and wonder

Do I have what it takes to make a difference?

Can I go far beyond my eye sight?

Or would I be held back till I have fully paid my penance

You ever feel you are destined for greatness?

Can't seem to shake off the feeling, can you?

It's like you feel you are as small as my pencil

And yet you are used to sign peace tributes.

We are in a world where little kindness can't be seen

It is like looking for an elephant using microscopy

Good is done for two reasons

To be praised and to receive global awards

Let's think of it, let's put our mind to test

Do we really need an award for being Human?

Or maybe it is because we are slowly dehumanising?

And so with the stars, I think

Maybe that's the missing link

I just want to carve the word "goodness" abroad

Right in the chest of whoever I come across

21st century, what a time

Undoing all the swift moral advances of ancestors past

Good deeds never make the front page

Nobody knows you till you are hugged by the grave.