Hypocrites and Charlatans
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My soul can hear a child cry;
its tears tethered to the whims of the times.
Children shackled to poverty and death
without a future and bereft of love;
struggle to survive in a world of plenty
due to corruption and corporate greed.
We choose to ignore their plight;
yet call ourselves God-fearing Christians.
We pretend to care if they live or die,
sponsoring phony profitable charities.
but the fact is, we feel little for them;
they are propaganda fillers for the news.
We go to church, drop to our knees, and pray
to God to forgive our sins.
We believe we've found a loophole in
God's unconditional love;
He cannot fault us for using our free will.
But God commanded, "Love each other,"
that choice was never left to us.
Humans are hypocrites and charlatans;
we claim to be compassionate beings;
yet we condemn children to starve to death
without feeling any remorse or guilt.
We view their world as make-believe,
convincing ourselves such suffering can't be real.
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2019
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