Let's Start Again (2)

Let’s Start Again (5th May, 2011)

Let’s start again,
go back a day, or just an hour
before the milk turned sour,
before the ten o’clock news brought global pain.

Is one day ever enough?

Let’s start the century again,
go back before campaigns were run by hate,
when East and West were compass points
and we were all more blessed,
before it got too late;

rewind, and watch the Towers climb,
before weapons got confused with planes,
when faith was not led by the blind
and skylines stood unrazed.

Let’s start again,
the question is the test:
At which point in our history
were we at our best?

Let’s uninvent the atom bomb,
return the gunmetal to the ground,
rewrite the bloody history books
with the new peace we’ll have found.

I’m starting small,
but the more I dig,
the more the time begins
to look like it might slip… so let’s go big;

let’s go back a millennium
or two, or three;

back to when we were pure
and lived in lands that were free;

back when we could not be bought
and heart meant more than face;

back before the wars, and the wars, and the wars…
until we find the cause to erase;

back to when humanity was a thought
instead of a race;

back to when we still had grace.

Let’s start again,
I say.