In the Absence Of

In the absence of love There's only hate In the absence of hope There's only despair Hope and love give strength and healing How can we live without it But hate and despair give pain and sorrow So much that we drown in it In the absence of faith we have would no religion In the absence of the sunshine There would be only the rain Take away the sun Then the world would be cold Without faith in the world How could the scriptures be told In the absence of peace there's only war In the absence of virtue There's only sin Both peace and virtue are the pedestals together that hold the world on their stands Sin and war are the destroyers of all life Together they corrupt and harm man Take away the order Then all we have is chaos What do we do In their absence