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Was it just imagining Which brought these eyes to see inside Another world We could have realised A different story For all our lives Looking into this stolen world Where the peaceful dream has unfurled Its banner of love beneath the sun A flag of truce for everyone The journey of our hearts becomes celebration When all is gathered into one A birth in unity Of this global family Looking into a broken crystal sphere Only turns on me its dark reminder Of what we all have become Peopled with lives of separation So filled with their neighbours fear Grabbing all they think they need Appeasing someone else’s greed Their solitude in slavery To the markets of their luxury While other faces shine with a tarnished love Are hoping for the pious judgement day to come So their elite self-righteous sense of justification Can gloat in contentment and damnation over the wicked ones And please themselves with all the evil they have never done But smiling still with condemnation as they watch Their brothers and sisters Burn And on the tiny gang-land street Where colours run with gangster feet The agonies of our divided homelands Are played upon a smaller stage Violence by the guns divide Rules to keep the urban warriors small Keep them in their skin deep cultures Keep them fighting for the scrapes let fall From the tables of wealthy vultures Usurped by those who wanted more than would suffice They sold us back ourselves for a price They are smiling in our death Killing each other for the chance The less we are The more there is left To fight over Keep us fighting in every way For a better life some day In these lives we do not own With all its empty promise we are shown Robbed from us so long ago We were redesigned and then re-sold Is now the only way We have ever known Looking into this stolen world None of us seem to be human anymore Our future confiscated by the fear of fear Destroying all the things we hold so dear So love can not stretch beyond the wall To the faces of the starving poor And extend our helping hand To us all Was it just your imagining Which brought my eyes to see inside Another world We could have realised A different story For all our lives Looking into this stolen world Where the peaceful dream did unfurl All the banners of its love beneath the sun Became a flag of trust for everyone Did the journey of our hearts become When all were gathered into celebration The birth of this global family In a unity of one
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