Loveless world

In a loveless world

You fail to recognise your brother’s true suffering

You speak hollow words of how

He should just pull himself out of the quagmire

While standing by your heart defended by righteousness

And yet you call yourself a Christian man

The longer we talk

The more my whole body winds itself up

Tighter and tighter

Until I have to fight for air

And my head screams

I had to leave it there

Cut the cords on the ones who turned their backs

So long ago on the depth of their own suffering

That their eyes have turned blind

I wont argue with you

I would rather just drop the line

And cleave to my own truth

For my own heart will stray

If I answer in any other way

But by turning away

While holding fast to

Unconditional love