The Land of Smiles

As I sat in front of the TV in my condo last night watching the news, I felt a strong need to express my thoughts (as well as others, I'm sure) about the political situation in Thailand.  It is very saddening to see that a once beautiful nation full of friendly people could find no other way to satisfy their want for a "just" government except to lead the country into a civil war.  What ever happened to the love of one's country or to the love of one's self?  Coincidentally, it is perhaps due to too much love of one's self that we have come to this.  We were once known as a humble race.  We need to stop the greed, put a lid on our egos and work together as one nation before the country we all claim to love will no longer be.  For unless we really work together, we will all surely lose.



The Land of Smiles

We lived in one great nation
A place we all called home
Where kindness was a virtue
And freely we once roamed
Those who came to visit
Would rave about our style
Of life that we had here
In the exotic land of smiles
Where everywhere you went
Someone always lent a hand
Be it to a neighbor close-by
Or of a far away land
This all has been replaced
By too much selfishness and greed
Everyone demanding what they want
Forgetting what we need
In place of all the smiles
Are now bloodstained tears
Uncertainty of what is to come
A lot of hatred and fear
Are you too ignorant to see
We're just hurting ourselves?
Stop thinking of one person
And think of everyone else
Work together as one nation
One love and one race
Let's all work together now
To put the smiles back in place.