"When I Grow up"

...when i grow up
i wanna be,
a force to be reckoned with...

when i grow up...
i wanna to take ahold
of love, and spread it's width...

i wanna...
make peace with the earth
and kiss her sadness away,
that's what i do first...

when i see...
things differently
i don't want your criticism
just accept all that i'm  becoming
as  i'm still gaining in wisdom...

when i grow up...
i want to take all the illness
and toss it into space
ever hopeful,  that if it returns
it will enhance this 'sickly place...'

when i grow up...
i hope to be big, and  strong, and tall
though if you climbed up to say hi,
i  promise i won't let you fall...

and if somehow i slip up, and do...
just remember i gave it my all

when i die...
i long to leave a positive mark
awakening in others- inspiration
and in young minds a spark

someone tell them
how i was as fragile as a butterfly
yet the strength in dreams possiblities
always made me fly...

when i die...
please let's commit
to change hate to love, and war to peace

B'cause when i go up...
these were the things i had truly hoped
and prayed for
and  from the heavens i'd implore god to release...