A WAND OF MAGIC

 In hand, a wand would make me a magic man,


 Not even a word and crime would disappear.


I could stop time, rid the world of trash or pollution,


 Take away the sick waters of rivers and oceans.


 Murder on our land would be stopped with a hand,


 The ill would be no more, cancer but a memory.


 I could run fast or jump high,


 A tear would be one less for all of mankind.


 The cruel slaughter of creatures in the world,


 With a wave from my hand, this would end.


 A wand of magic need not be that of evil,


 For love and good, the hand that holds this wand.


 A wand of magic is not to be real,


 We can wish, hope, and pray, that it all goes away.

               Keith Garrett