Why do we let greed disembowel the Earth
Fracturing nature’s cradling harmony?
Why do we let hatred plague the vital breeze
Bleeding our race of its humanity?
Why are we blind to the needy and lame
By privilege unearned cruelly oppressed?
Why to the forsaken’s cry are we so deaf
Leaving them of their honor dispossessed?
How can eternal be our destination?
How can we ever claim royal descent?
How can we hope for mercy and for compassion
If in our mind resides evil intent?
How can we claim the angels as our kin
While seeking to behold God’s holy face
How can our prayers pierce the open sky
When our malice is venom to the human race?
Let us awake, reject these lethal bonds
Show that we are not children of the lie
Oblivious of our neighbor’s deep despair
Content to wallow in a moral sty
Let us recall we come from noble place
Where life’s sole purpose is for love to shine
Let’s open our hearts to heavenly grace
Rekindling in our soul the spark divine