Start Something That Matters

There is a box suppressed deep in our chests

Where forgotten dreams and consuming passions are laid to rest

This wooden crate is packed tight with

            Crumpled sketches on coffee stained napkins

            Brilliant ideas from an enlightening conversation

            A painted canvas full of life and imperfections

            Notebooks spilling with business plans, poems, and powerful intentions

We’ve all heard about the bottom billion

            How 72 million children can’t attend school

            How 22,000 of them die daily from poverty’s rule

            How HIV, Malaria, and Diarrhea are preventable even treatable

                        How we have the tools

            Yet millions still suffer and die because what they’re missing is me

                        What they’re missing is you

What the world is missing is what you have always longed to do

            To provide water, clothing, shelter, shoes

            And to do so following your boxed in muse

So I invite you

To unpack your crate

            Find your spark light your fuse

And start something

            That the world can truly use

Then when your box is empty

            And your tools are in hand

Flip your box upside down

            to use it as your voices’ stand

Shout your dreams, wave your banners

            Plant a seed, pen tomorrow’s chapter

I say to you standers

            You box top dancers

Paint all you painters

            Paint something that captures

Write all you writers

            Write something that answers

Build all you builders

            Build something that shelters

And start all you starters

            Start something that matters