Platform2 'I Am The Change' Poetry Book Launch

Below is a piece I wrote to perform at the launch of the Platform 2 'I Am The Change' Poertry Book launch.   Poetry on the theme of Global injustice.  The collection brought together the works of various young people who travelled to developing countries with the Platform2 volunteering program.  


To find more about the Platform 2 program go to : http://www.myplatform2.com/



The Root Cause


I used to blame other people for my own mistakes

Used to sit around and wait until it became too late

Its so easy to laze to procrastinate

Its difficult to change and create your own fate

But its never too late to shape ur own life

I get up early every morning , give thanks for being alive

According to evolution only strong survive

So if at first you don’t succeed you’ve gotta try try try

To be all you can be

There’s infinite possibility

What you believe governs exactly what your going to see

And what you believe determines what you receive in return. 

Because Nature works on a basic set of Algorithms,

The more you input for others the more altruism

You receive in return and the more you learn about

The interconnectivity of all

Gotta find the root cause, the root cause, the root cause, look at the root. 

Gotta find the root cause, the root cause, the root cause, look at the root.

In our present system we rely on short term solutions

profit takes priority in the codes of institutions

Every disease is appeased by looking at straight the symptoms

Pills and potions that result side-affect conditions. 

But I’ve decided to prescribe myself a lasting fix

With no harmful side-effects only benefits

the medicine of meditation is a lasting kind

Becoming a silent witness of my own mind

So I can remove my pet lip, sip on the h20 flow

Alcoholic kicks are unnecessary for those

Whose happiness needs no quick catalyst to assist

hearing the internal rhythm I go aka at a party

Dance with so much energy i nearly leap out of my body

Feeling so hearty want to introduce myself to myself. 

Gotta find the root cause, the root cause, the root cause, look at the root.

Gotta find the root cause, the root cause, the root cause, look at the root.