We came here to escape
the tyranny and persecution of having a different faith.
To a land where, one’s
beliefs wouldn’t be condemned
And in arrival to such
a land
We made it law that
government will not be influence by faith.
Writing it in our
land’s DNA, “church separate from state.”
But it seemed as if
the scars of disdain, judgment, and humiliation were not deep enough.
For we soon became the
very thing, we escape from.
Enslaving people and
making them our minions.
We who claimed to be
Christians became victims of the deadliest assassin of humanity,
Hypocrisy.
Poisoning ourselves
with self-righteousness
To church, we went to
flaunt our good Christian ways
While simultaneously
in our plantations gods we played
Some of us managed the
poison to spit
And enlightenment of
our misdoings reach
And onto others
repentance preach
But others had already
swallowed,
Declaring, “they are
heathens. They should be hanged in gallows.”
Soon, the revolution
made them realize that was untrue
And with redemption
washed hypocrisy’s lethal brew
Some remained unaffected
And like the God they claimed
to praised, hypocrisy resurrected
The inheritance of a
dream of justice and equality remained unclaimed
The ancestral goal, we
still were unable to attain
Seduced by the power of
hypocrisy
We slowly lost our humanity
Making humanity foe
And hypocrisy friend
Willingly drinking his
venom of self-righteousness
“Arrogance! Intolerance!”,
he encourages
Banning abortion,
Islam, Obama Care, and immigrants
Self-proclaimed gods
We stand tall on pedestals
As we pick and choose what’s ethical
Ancestral hopes of justice
and liberty
Are found now buried under
the corpse of humility
But somewhere embedded
in our land’s DNA
Are traces of these
words, “church separate from state”
The words are still
there, but for its execution
We still wait.
