Human Responsibility

Why have we turned our backs to reason?

Accusing one another of treason.

Hatred growing with every season.

An end nowhere in sight.

Death, Riot, Accusation.

Humanity searching for its foundation.

Uprooting the State of our Nation.

Wanting nothing more than to fight.

"Why are we like this?" we shout at God,

"Why must we suffer so?"

"Why do you not spare us the rod?"

"Can your mercy no longer flow?"

"Our sinful nature is to blame!"

"It never was our fault!"

"You placed this curse upon our claim,

And because of this we are default."

Be silent, be still you sinful man,

For sinful nature was here before this began.

To make a claim of innocence you can,

But you have been deceived.

That snake who's cursed to slither so,

The one called Lucifer I think you know,

Has convinced you that to reap is not to sow,

And now you have found yourself aggrieved.

When you sow fear throughout the mind,

Think of what others will do in kind,

For bigotry will find some resigned,

But others will push back.

And when bigotry becomes the norm,

And violence beckons like a storm,

You find the world will be transformed,

Ash and Soot will not lack.

A barren land you will create,

Devoid of liberty and life.

Conformity will be our state,

And the leftovers our strife.

Human Nature you cannot change,

Sin is in the heart.

But our priorities we still may rearrange,

And give us a new start.

We must look to the past for lessons taught,

For reason itself must be sought.

For to continue on this current path is for naught,

Our days are numbered.

Think to our children and theirs as well,

For it is our job to help them excel.

Let us not leave them wondering what befell,

The world we have so encumbered.

Christian or not, learn from this verse,

In your everyday life please rehearse.

The fruit described will disperse,

A better world for all.

Galatians 5:22-23 is what I speak,

And 2 Peter 1:5-8 further refines the technique,

Of living life in a manner worthy critique.

For with these hate will forestall.

I wish to leave this world better than it was,

And for every man and woman this is a just cause.

Let us be caretakers of this world because,

It. 

Is. 

A Gift.