Everyone
Everyone needs the tender love of a mother,
To be able to understand and reach out to another.
Everyone needs the air to breathe, everyday of their life,
And a purpose for each day, to find a path, absent of strife.
Everyone needs to feel the sun and rain on their skin,
to feel hot and cold,
Pleasure and pain, to balance the mind
as we eventually grow old.
Everyone needs at times to laugh and cry,
The well of human emotions we can never deny.
Everyone needs to nourish the soul, some times god,
elusive power,
Others use reason and thought, each day and each hour.
Everyone needs affection and love, so it goes,
Why human beings are fragile, nobody knows.
Everyone needs someone to lean on and cherish each day,
A hand to hold on to and to show the right way.
Everyone needs nourishment and water to drink,
for the body to thrive,
Who will look after those in need, who will cry,
when justice is so often denied.
