Oh would that we might comprehend
How paths in life walk hand in hand
With all we need to understand
Like values held both small and grand.
Tis sad that most share virtue lost
Yet do not pause to count the cost
Or thought to help avoid exhaust
Without some chance to hit defrost !
Oh that yearning for times long past
Those youthful days that did not last
Where all our dreams began as hope
To bear no limits in their scope
For youth is that which knows no fear
Of obstacles both far and near.
Yet all too soon those days must pass
Like shadows in life’s looking glass
While time alone may leave its marks
As former youth on age embarks
There face anew another day
To pack their former life away !
I think I hear the death knell sound
Reverberating all around
Assure me, I am not insane
And that their speech is just inane.
I cannot bear what I have heard
Although it’s but the boastful word
Of those who hold no truthful call
Determined they’re above it all.
Oh Lord forgive their arrogance
Those words spoken have no defense
Please blessed Lord remember us
When come those times inglorious !
I like to think that when I cry
The tears I shed whisper goodbye
To all the lost dreams I recall
And tragedies that did befall
For life’s composed of good and bad
Of days so sweet or ever sad
And thus we learn as we do grow
That what we reap is as we sow !
The hopes of a nation are at stake
Our country’s heart is ready to break
See the facade of all that we are
No more a dream but a falling star.
It matters little what we desire
Because we are a people afire
The disease is swift consuming all
Hypocrites stand awaiting the fall !
The trumpets sound, drums beat away
The voices have so much to say
Is this the future soon to come
What is it we are fleeing from ?
Is there some place that we may hide
From all the fears we’ve deep inside
Pick up the pieces, stand up tall
Let’s learn to walk before we fall !
There’s nothing left that one can say
About the sadness of this day
We wish that we could melt away
This hurtful pain that’s come our way.
Oft times our lives turn upside down
And can’t be saved with smile or frown
As these our hopes seem apt to drown
Some other action must be found !
