For That We Will Work and Pray

Dear Lord:

These are troubling days

In which we live and move

And find ourselves engrossed

And trying hard to prove

The righteousness of our cause

To bring justice to this land

And still we find before us

Power gotten out of hand. 

There are those who dwell in their positions

Whose offices are opulent and such

While we are wayfaring pilgrims

Forced to live without so much.

The wealthy, powerful people are white

They farm thousands and thousands of acres

Their tractors are new and shiny

Their leaders are too often deal breakers. 

We saw them on the screen

Technology brings us all together

They lied to our very faces

To the truth we ourselves are tethered. 

Who do they think we are

Some mindless uninformed folks

Who do not know what there is to know

Buying in to their contrived created hoax?

No, we are wise and informed

They will surely someday see

We will speak the truth again and again

Watch it set us all free.

From the lies the deception

The machinations to steal the land

We will push for change here and now

And thwart their heinous plan.

There is that one small town

A man and his friend where they farmed

The bank the dealership and the office

Meant to do them a lot of harm.

Pay day some day

A phrase I've heard quite often

Is perhaps soon to come true

And blows will be somehow softened. 

We will rise in glory

We will celebrate the day

When all of God's children are respected

For that we will work and pray.

Amen