All We Need Is Love

We live in a house with a mother and a father, we go to school and we go back home to a mother and a father.
We live in a house with a mother and no father, we go to school and we go back home to a mother and no father.
We go to school to learn and to play and to see our friends.
We go to school to learn but we do not learn, we play and see our friends.
We go to school and we do not learn and play time is not fun and our friends are fighting.
We go home to hot food and clean clothing.
We go home to cold food and dirty rooms.
We get home and our mother has baked us cookies and we sit and relax and talk about the day.
We get home and our mother is not there.
We get home and we put something in the microwave to eat.
We go to sleep at a certain time and we wake up feeling good.
We go to sleep anytime we want and we can't focus on the school work.
We eat a healthy lunch prepared by our mother and father.
We eat pizza and cookies at the cafeteria and we usually throw away the canned vegetables.
We get picked up at the right time because we have other activities to attend to.
We stay after school til later and we are tired and hungry.
We are treated with respect because we were tought to treat others with respect.
We are yelled and screamed at because others treat us like that too.
We are the lucky ones.
We have loving parents.
We are not so lucky.
We have parents.
We are children.
We want love.
We want peace.
We want to be happy.