HELP ME DEAR LORD
(A Prayer For Humanity)

Help me dear LORD - For I can’t understand
What’s happening to us - In such a great land
The richest on earth - But it still must be said
So many are hungry - When tucked into bed.

‘’Love thy neighbor’’ YOU have told - So simple it be
But it’s ‘I’ and not ‘us’ - Seems quite true to me.
We lock all our doors - For privacy and fear
So we sometimes don’t know - If trouble is near.

The ‘left’ and the ‘right’ - Seem to argue most days
While peoples shake heads - Their eyes all a’glazed.
Neither side gives an inch - For fear they’ll be seen
As weak or not smart - Isn’t that just obscene?

We claim that our children - Mean most to us all
Just don’t ask us to forsake - Our beer and football
When new schools need built - To keep our kids best
They rarely get done - Guess we flunked our ‘test’.

Our elderly are treated - With indifference at best
(You fought in ‘the war’? - Please, give it a rest!)
How long must we listen - To your boring tales?
Don’t bother me ‘grandpa’ - Just got one more sale!

Everywhere that you look - Is WAR in ‘YOUR’ name
They profess YOUR beliefs - Yet kill all the same
Dear LORD how much longer - Must we have to wait?
While ‘love’ seems losing - To something called ‘hate’

TallPockets - 2008