Paradise

This started out as lyrics I wrote in the early 1990s. I re-worked the lyrics into a poem on August 31, 2009. The poem looks at how different people's situations can lead them to have different ideas of what paradise can be.


What would you consider to be paradise?
Lazy days lying on the beach
And having what you want within your reach?
Well, all that can certainly sound very nice


Some people just want a roof over their head
And want to have enough to eat
Instead, they have to live out on the street
And have to scrounge around for their food instead


Now I ask, what's your idea of paradise?
Are you grateful for what you own
And to have a place that you can call home?
You just have to look through someone else's eyes