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  Why do we not see it and love it as we ought.

  Jane Begley

  Our Changing World

  How the world has changed from when it all began

  A world that has existed for millions of years

  A world that is meant to go on forever

  A world so precious and so unique

  Yet most of us do not understand

  How precious and unique it really is

  We bicker and argue amongst ourselves

  About carbon emissions and the state of the world

  Always taking the easy way out

  Instead of investing in ways to safeguard the world

  One day if we do not take heed

  Our precious world will be lost to us all.

  Jane Begley

  Seasons

  The world is ever changing, ever moving

  Sometimes calm and gentle

  Sometimes ferocious and angry

  The land is constantly changing

  The sea is constantly changing

  The sky above changes with them

  The people and animals and plants

  Also change with them

  What an amazing place this is

  A world so unique in this vast universe

  Turning so slowly, we are totally unaware

  That we too are slowly moving with it

  The sun and the moon essential to our life

  Give us all that we need to survive

  Without them, life on earth would be no more

  There would be no seasons, there would be no life.

  Jane Begley

  Seeing and Hearing

  Do we see everything that is in front of us

  Do we see everything that is behind us

  Or do we see only what we want to see

  Is it possible to see everything that is around us

  Are we aware of the things that we cannot see

  Do we hear everything that is going on around us

  Are there things going on around us that we can only sense

  Are we perhaps only tuning in to certain sounds

  Certain sounds that we know are there

  Do we have other senses that we are not aware of

  Senses that can only be used when we are aware of them

  Some people call it intuition

  A kind of knowing or a kind of feeling

  A kind of sense when something is not right

  A kind of sense when something is right

  Not a seeing or a hearing but an awareness.

  Jane Begley

  The Air We Breathe

  How strange it is that the air feels different

  On different days and in different places

  Sometimes it feels fresh and clean

  Sometimes stuffy and stagnant

  Wherever you are in the world

  The air and the atmosphere are different

  It changes with the seasons

  It changes with the environment

  Even the people you are with

  Even the buildings you are in

  Can change the air that we breathe

  How strange it is that the air feels different

  In so many different ways.

  Jane Begley

  The Children of Tomorrow

  We are all the children of tomorrow

  We are all capable of love and understanding

  Love is shown and felt in so many ways

  All over the world, there is a new understanding

  That love is THE most important emotion of all

  Without love, there is only anger and hate

  Children are given more love than they have ever been given before

  They are allowed the freedom to express themselves

  Knowing what it is that they would enjoy doing

  Knowing and being in touch with themselves

  Understanding that the earth must be looked after

  That war and fighting is not the way to solve problems

  Let us hope that this understanding will soon spread

  To all the troubled parts of the world where love is not expressed

  Where they cannot see the cause of their own anger and hate

  They see only what they are told to see and do not look inside their hearts

  The world is a magical place if you take a look around you

  Even in the busiest town or city, just look up at the sky

  Ever changing, ever moving from day to night and back again

  There is always a tree somewhere to be seen and birds up in the sky

  Thank goodness we are now more aware that the world must be taken more care of.

  Jane Begley

  The Creation of Life

  We are born and we die

  What determines how we live

  Where does our spirit come from

  Where does our spirit go to when we die

  Is it all purely chance

  Or do we come here for a purpose

  Is there a particular path for everyone

  We are all different enjoying different things

  Some of us are good at particular things

  Some are good at different things

  Is there perhaps a balance of different characters

  A balance of how many people are good at certain things

  Is there also a balance of good and bad people

  There must be surely

  Otherwise life would be even more difficult than it already is

  It is a pity that we don’t all know what we are supposed to do

  Then life could be so much more than it is.

  Jane Begley

  The Gap

  Life began with a bang, we are told

  Everything coming together at just the right time

  To create a world, to create life

  Life which gradually evolved into what we have today

  Did people really evolve from apes

  How did all these different species come to exist

  How did nature produce such a varied life

  A life with all the right combinations of wild life

  All the right combinations of plant life and animal life

  All the different species that live in the sea

  All with a different purpose for life to exist

  Did people really evolve from such primitive life

  Or did they perhaps come from another place

  Sent here to help protect and care for

  Such an amazing, diverse and complete world.

  Jane Begley

  The Love of Two People

  Whoever you are, wherever you live

  Love is as necessary as breathing air

  Without it, the spirit will gradually die

  Without the touch and the love of another

  There will always be something missing

  When two people meet and fall in love

  Their whole world changes completely

  Their souls unite and they are happy again

  They are no longer unhappy and incomplete

  When they lie together, their bodies touching

  When they come together and become as one

  There is nothing in the world that can compare.

  Jane Begley

  The Sky Above and the Earth Below

  All around the world, there is the sky

  A miracle in itself, as there is nothing really there

  A space that goes on forever

  No one really knows

  Wherever you are, everything looks different

  On one side of the world, it is day light

  On the other side of the world, it is night time

  What is at the centre of the Earth

  Does anyone really know

  Below the surface, there are all kinds of amazing things

  From diamonds to coal, from water to oil

  Fires burning and bubbling, throwing out their energy

  So many different
theories of how it all began

  So many unexplained questions never really answered

  An ever-changing sky and ever-changing earth below.

  Jane Begley

  The Weather

  Hardly a day goes by without some kind of change in the weather

  Sometimes only slight and subtle

  Sometimes from one extreme to the other

  Changes in the weather can affect how we feel

  And can affect what we do

  The weather affects the plants that grow

  It affects the animals and birds and insects

  When we look out and see the blue sky and the sun

  We feel happy and energetic and want to be outside

  If we look out and see a grey sky and rain

  Our energy and enthusiasm goes away

  Too much of a good thing, however, can have the same effect

  All around the world, the weather is different

  Even in the same country it varies from place to place

  What an amazing world this is

  A tiny planet in such a vast universe.

  Jane Begley

  The Wonders of the Sea

  The sea is the creator of our landscape

  It is the healer of our souls

  It has an energy which is so unique

  It can calm the spirit

  It can energise the soul

  Just by standing and watching

  Just by standing and listening

  By breathing in its freshness

  By bathing in it completely

  It can heal and energise our all.

  Jane Begley

  The World and All Its Creatures

  There are so many creatures that inhabit the world

  It would be impossible to count them all

  Creatures so small, you need a microscope to see them

  And those so big, they can only survive in the sea

  Birds so beautifully coloured, they just don’t look real

  Animals of all different shapes and sizes.

  Jane Begley

  The World and the Weather

  The Earth and the moon and the sun

  These planets are all interconnected

  They control the force of the weather

  The weather controls the earth

  These forces are shown in different ways

  All around the world, they change from day to day

  From calm to storm in a matter of minutes

  Such varying weather brings monumental change

  From eroding cliffs from stormy seas

  That can destroy the land and all in its path

  Winds of such force, they can uproot trees and buildings

  Carrying them vast distances away

  Volcanoes both on land and under the sea

  Producing fire and burning molten rocks

  Flying out and burying everything in its path

  Changing the landscape since time began

  We have icebergs and frozen seas both in the north and south

  We have deserts of sand which appear to never end

  Shaped by the wind and the scorching sun

  So many varying climates are hard to believe

  All on one lone planet in such a vast universe.

  Jane Begley

  Together

  In every part of the world, there are people who care

  There are people who know how love feels

  Who care about their families and friends

  Who try to do what feels right in their lives

  Those who care about the planet

  Those who try to change the things that are wrong

  Who appreciate the beauty that is around them

  These are the people who bring us hope

  Hope that one day things will change

  One day we will all work together

  To love and take care of this beautiful world.

  Jane Begley