Learning to Love

Deprivation,

Cry the trillion souls Around the earth
The pain-filled eyes,
The mangled limbs the sick bereft of mirth

We fear each other As we search an earthly lover
Mythical is he And some like lemmings
Hurtle over cliffs into the sea,

We tie our children to a table
Thinking that we can
Ignore the lessons
Of man’s inhumanity to man
The wars, the earthquakes, tortures,
Pestilence draw near to us
To teach us that
Which we propelled along
Most fear we squirm back off, lash out
Retreat to sickness, to escape
The debit of our greed and hate

Indifference, cruelty, rape,
The debit will be credited
Deprivation’s price is high
It’s free to king and commoner
But no-one can deny we love
Or die.

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