Let Love Remain in Our Battered Hearts
And night has come upon my land,
the carrion birds encircling
and prayers ascend on pyres lit,
the shadows fast descending
And leaders know not how to lead,
they gape, they watch in silence
while each new day brings grief afresh,
no help, no rest, no guidance
And those who come with sturdier boats,
will row perhaps to safety,
but most, will flay, in desperate need,
expendable humanity
What will remain, when the storm has passed,
when many so loved are lost,
what will be changed, within our hearts
what will this time exhaust
May then we not allow ourselves
to be led by those inept,
for want of air while many died,
unmoved, while many wept
May we never again be fooled,
by words, by power, by greed,
put not our faith in men of stone
who use us for their need
And know that when the night was dark,
who came to hold our hand,
it was the stranger, the ones unknown,
who share this wounded land
It was the one you did not trust,
the ones who were the other,
and when the leaders all had fled,
in him you found a brother
So let no powers again succeed,
to divide us at their will,
let love remain in our battered hearts,
the hope they could not kill.
God bless