You know I sometimes wish I could,
Get in that glass screen surrounded by wood.
I’d change the programmes one by one,
No more terror or murder with gun.
Political corruption would be no more,
With Speculators robbing the weak and poor.
This world of ours I would fill with joy,
A brand new start for every girl and boy
Mother Nature would bloom anew,
All mankind‘s dreams would come true.
With Birds and Beasts, Flowers and Trees,
With no more Poisons on every breeze.
The waters in each river and stream,
Would be pure and clear like in my dream.
Yes all the programmes on my TV,
Would be specially made for you and me.
I 'd teach the Children to love and care,
The Grown-ups how to help and share.
Each job of work that has to be done,
Shall be shared by everyone.
There'll be no more rich and no more poor,
On my Television and that's for sure.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) began his writing career as a critic. He wrote many plays, poems and novels. He tried to bring about positive changes like equal rights for women, equality of all men and so on in the English society in the late 1800s. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 and an Oscar for Pygmalion in 1938.

In this poem, the speaker wishes that the television had programmes that showed no violence and highlighted only happy things. He wants to have shows specially made for children, which would teach them how to love and care teach grown-ups how to help and share.

terror : extreme fear

Political corruption : political corruption happens when leaders who are in power do things that are dishonest or against the rules.

Speculators : people who try of money through the money

anew : in a new and positive