We Have Failed

We Have Failed  
 
What kind of world are we living in  
when people are dying to no avail?  
 
When man’s moral compass is gone.  
Mothers cry over their young and wail.  
 
Where sympathy is a word to be told.  
Humanity has crumbled and failed,  
 
to behold it’s most sacred goals.  
“Love” and “Peace” were its most holy grails.  
   
What happened to “Turn the other cheek?”  
“Do unto others” has now prevailed.  
 
“Love thy neighbor” is no more.    
The number of dead is off the scale.  
 
What am I going to tell my young,  
that the time of peace has already sailed?  
 
That love is no longer to be sung.  
It is just in movies and fairytales.  
 
I don’t want to live in a world  
where lives are commodities for sale.  
 
We can not keep pointing the blame
at one another for our truths to prevail.  
 
There must come a time and a place    
when we wake up and remove the veil,  
 
of distrust and start all over again.  
If we don’t, then we would all have failed.