Poetry From The Heart

If You Knew

If You Knew

If you knew the power of your word

Would you care about what people heard?

If you knew someone was alone and defenseless

Would you care enough to stop being so senseless?

If you knew a heart was wounded and jaded

Would you make someone feel appreciated?

If you knew the power of a man's greed

Would you give your money to someone in need?

If you knew the reason why people take abuse

Would you take the time to change their views?

If you knew a teenager who was about to give birth

Would you share the meaning of life and it's worth?

If you knew a person with disease was dying

Would you tell them to give up or to keep on trying?

If you knew the meaning behind a poor man stealing

Would you punish him for wrong doing without feeling?

If you knew a child who didn't believe in the Lord

Would you take a moment to share the love you had stored?

If you knew a girl who cut her pain with blades to her skin

Would you look at her in shame and say she was a sin?

If you knew a hungry family had no food to live

Would you sacrifice yourself and offer what you could give?

If you knew a boy who never learned to read and write

Would you take the time to see his inner light?

If you knew that sadness brought all of this pain

Would you care enough to bring sunshine to the rain?

If you knew the power of your own significance

Would you realize that you alone can make a difference?

*This poem was written because so many people are blind to others pain. Many see only the surface, yet forget the truths that lie underneath. If you take the time, you can make a difference in someone's life if you see what lies beneath the surface.

**I did not write this poem.  I wanted to share it, because it really causes you to think about how everything that we do as a person as an effect on someone else.  If this touch you in some way, please share it.  The original poem can be found here: http://projecthijab.blogspot.com/2009/12/if-you-knew.html