I can't pretend to understand
To understand what it's like when the symphonies of war play at night
When you lay your head down at night
Praying, hoping, wishing for silence
Even that holds its horrors
I can't pretend that I understandI can't pretend that I know what to do
Exactly how I can help you silence the pain
For you are what seems like galaxies away
In a world where peace has no audience
Where normality is a concept, a once hopeful idea
I don't want to live in ignoranceClaiming that in some way I understand your plight, ill equip to offer a viable solution
We live in a world where we can scream at the top of our lungs yet it's only the deaf that hear us
Injustice playing out like a veiled dream
With ignorance and bliss as it's audience
I wish we could do betterI wish we could try harder
Pray harder but unfortunately the men of free will have power
Moving indiscriminatelyDestroying with little regard to their victims.
Hope, hope is so powerful
With desperation as it's companion
Leading men to do that which was once foreign to their character
Edmund Burke once said"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
But what happens when it is the evil that holds the powerWhere the scales of justice are tipped in their favour
It is at this very time
This precise moment that we must speak in hope
Not empty words backed with empty gestures
We must shout at the top of our lungs.
Remembering that the voice of the people with hope brought down the walls of Jericho