Senseless ( Part One )

Senseless What is it inside the heart of man That cannot appreciate another’s suffering Were we born with this senseless implacability Is it from life itself we grow these calluses of the soul Are we created not to care Is the face of nature so coldly ruthless That we must come to be so For what belief in anything in which to believe Should we maim and destroy and kill What is it that we know so well That the idea of difference can cause such conceited violence How do we become so voluntarily indoctrinated Is it some desperate need to have sense amidst the senseless To have at least the illusion of a purpose When then do we celebrate the diversity of our sense to make sense of the senseless Should every woman and man dream and aspire And have every man and woman dream and aspire to the same Or say this love is stronger or this way is better This truth more truthful than anything anyone else can know Who’s despicable spirit can live with out some measure of guilt in overfed luxury While others starve and die in poverty Are we not as one with this the global identity we call humanity Are we not basically and essentially all the same If right there is to pass on righteous judgment For cultural and social and political and religious difference Such conviction and contempt is that all we see in our own reflection When then do we celebrate our diversity of sense to make sense of the senseless .........................................