May 27, 2012

The Inheritance of Hypocrisy



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.