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.