# A Vision of the Future

By [Vaiva](https://paragraph.com/@vaiva) · 2023-09-30

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> Call me optimistic or call me naive
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> but I have a vision of a future where people won’t have to bleed
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> from wars they didn’t want to participate in.
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> A vision where we will see each other as an extension of ourselves.
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> And who would like to cut their own arm off?
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> Perhaps I’m optimistic, perhaps I am naive
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> but I believe that one day,
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> we’ll treat our Mother Nature the way we treat our kids.
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> With kindness, servitude and guard
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> against all evils and harm.
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> A vision which is communal,
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> where excess is shared,
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> where we become conscious and present,
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> and we choose to care.
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> Where we stop the cycle of being too guarded
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> and open up our vulnerable, soft selves.
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> Where we embrace the pain that comes with it
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> and shout, and scream, and cry.
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> Where we hug, and laugh too,
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> because no emotion could be called shameful,
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> no idea could be called dumb.
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> I hope that in this future we will learn how to sit still,
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> how to listen and hear, how to watch and observe.
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> Call me optimistic or call me naive
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> but I have a vision of a future
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> perhaps you’ll join me in.

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