In the poem, Astrid Lindgren writes that if she were God, she would weep over the human beings, about their cruelty, despair, fear, torment, etc.
She would cry floods of tears in which all her poor humans could drown, because then it would finally be quiet.
Among other things, she wrote to politicians such as Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev and campaigned for peace in war countries[2] or contributed the foreword to the book Jag drömmer om Fred (1994), published by UNICEF, in which painted pictures of refugee children were published.
A lot of other works, originally written as poems, were rewritten and used as songs in the Astrid Lindgren films.
[3] After Lindgren got a stroke in 1998, she asked her daughter and Kerstin Kvint to read literature to her.
[4] According to Christine Nöstlinger the poem shows how much Lindgren suffered from the horrible state of the world.
[5] Margareta Strömstedt adds that the despair about the state of the world sometimes made Astrid Lindgren lose hope and cost her sleepless nights.
[6] Katarina Alexandersson particularly perceives the author's feelings of helplessness in the face of grief, pain or evil in the poem.
[7] Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt added that the poem reflects the melancholy of Astrid Lindgren in her later years.
[8] Birgit Dankert writes that the poem proves that both Astrid Lindgren's childhood and her melancholy can be seen as the part where her creativity comes from.
Lindgren explained that the adult in her knew that God or paradise did not exist, while at the same time the child in her would not accept this knowledge.
The tears are cried so that people can recognize, change, stop their gruesome actions and turn back.