A Peculiar Gift

Was my life just a wish I hid between the pages of survival And even though the Universal source of all Granted me this gift This singular precious life Did I search instead to be the worthiness of heaven Did I judge all my actions By the prison bars of hell And see in your eyes and the eyes of others The handiwork of demons Have I written on the chalkboard of my soul The dark inks of my submissions I see that in our innocence We have been duped and confused Into leading a less than innocent life And the greatest tragedy of this Earth Is the ignorance of our denial We do not see the collage of injustice Their bodies scattered on our path And all the bright and shining electronic objects Are limply hanging from the sign posts of our children’s future Their bodies dried and bloodless Skeletal in their silence Point the way to our decent Into the depths of the untouchable and the soulless Where and how have we been brought to this To feel so very comfortable While the price we count in money Is the cost Of human life Did we eat too much Did we want too much Did we suckle so much in frenzy Upon the teat of propaganda Did I believe too readily Did we swallow all our pride Has conscience become a mouthful A swallowed panacea of pharmaceuticals When did we agree to be So confused Did you accept that all this luxury Must be paid by the suffering of someone else Or did I just close my heart Close my mind and close your soul And even though the nagging is persistent The denial of truth haunts all of you Did we bury ourselves in the infatuation Of all this passing momentary thrill Bought and sold from the instance of our birth And it is not our part to carry the guilt or the fault But each one of us in time Must wake up To the complicity that we play In the slavery inflicted on this world A part of innocence and ignorance In the suffering of our brothers and our sisters A peculiar gift is the insight burgeons a new light within the soul Far more humane it is than burden of its curse To live amongst these human chains But still see all that we are worth