Buttons

Wish we had a button to love.

Buttons everywhere.
A button to sleep.
A button to wake.
A button to destroy and a button to make.

No longer is the need
To roll the li’l handle on the door
To wind down the car window.
We just have to press a button.

We don’t even have to get down the car
To open the door to the garage.
Everything is automatic these days
We just have to press a button.

The fireplaces are gone
The cracking sound of fires with it.
We can have a big screen with a picture
That flames up at the push of a button.

A button for the bomb
A button for the rocket launcher
See, just a button to demolish
A button for everything.

How would it be if there was a button
To undo everything that happened.
Simply, a button to rewind
To that beautiful romantic dinner date.

If, at the push of a button, we can make
Countries accept the refugees.
Like how, at the push of a button,
We make a simple cup of coffee.

If we can re-elect someone better
If we can make people nicer again
In these times, in this world,
Wish we had a button to love.