If I Were In Charge of the World

If I were in charge of the world

 I'd cancel flu season, homework,

 headaches, running late and also research papers.

If I were in charge of the world

 there'd be later nights,longer weekends,

 and endless sunsets over towns that never sleep.

If I were in charge of the world

you wouldn't have sadness.

You wouldn't have pain.

You wouldn't have a bad report card

Or "You're just not good enough."

You wouldn't even have failure

If I were in charge of the world

a heaping bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream 

would be a vegetable.

All year it would be seventy-five degrees (even when it snows.)

and a person who sometimes forget to make her bed before school

and sometimes forgot to eat a meal

would still be allowed to be

in charge of the world.