Focus

In our day and age
When death has the stage
Darkness is all around

When we turn on the news
It gives us the blues
To see all the terror on earth

"...40 more deaths in Bolivia..."
Headlines like this seem like trivia
For we're surround by darkness and death

Could it be me?
For all I can see
Are reasons for my untimely demise

The books we read
They plant a dark seed
That blocks out the sun and its beams

Movies we see
Fill us with glee
But haunt us in our beds at night

They seem effective
At changing perspective
To one of doubt and despair

Can I find hope?
Can I eventually cope?
With the scares made in this world?

The redirection of focus
Is not hocus pocus
We just need to look at the Light

We just need to view
What is joyful and true
To illuminate our darkening world

The sight of a flower
Can fill us with Power
That will conquer the darkness

If we stare into the shadows
Despair overflows
And all we can think of is dark

Upon what we ponder
We'll become fonder
Until that is our only thought

So let's make the subject of our attention
Not be a prevention
Of the Light that shines from the sky

If we focus on the Son
There's no need to run
From the shadows that lurk in our minds

If we focus on Light
Our world will be bright
If we only open the blinds