One Solution

[RiverNotch]

One Solution 

I'm currently rereading the commemorative edition of Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", and this reminds me a bit of a story in the preface ---

Consider the illusion
that we could make a difference
by offering one solution.
there would be no testing or trial runs, "There..."
we would just do our best—
we would stick to our guns. This doesn't seem like the sort of piece to go into too much imagery or anything, so yeah, I can see why it's kinda weak. But it does tug, so I don't really think that's a weakness -- what is a weakness is the general lack of rhythm. Perhaps adapt prosody (risky, though), or just a punchier sense of rhythm -- some lines feel too long ("there would be no testing or trial runs", "we would stick to our guns"), and "there would be no sounds of dissension" sounds massively forced, what with the normal usage I think being "dissent" (without the "sounds"), as well as being a sort of out-of-place rhyme, considering runs/best/guns.
The world would flow nicely,
like a well-oiled machine.
There would be no sounds of dissension,
we would all pay attention.
Simply
because And this device -- one word lines -- it works sometimes, but I think only when there's a real tension or emphasis to the words, neither of which are present here.
we offered the world
one solution. But the breaks in this last sentence do mirror the beginning, which is kinda nice.

I don't really think this needs more big words or big images, just a better sense of its own sound. This is a limited piece, with its general lack of novelty, but since it made me feel something, those limitations make it feel all nice and clean. But that is just me -- might want to move on from this. Anyways, a distillation of my points:

Consider the illusion
that we could [all] make a difference
offering one solution.
There would be no trial runs,
we would just do our best --
just stick to our guns.
The world would flow nicely,
like a well oiled machine,
and there'd be no dissent,
just [rhymes with machine] --
simply because
we offered one solution.