THE SECOND COMING
THE SECOND COMING
who will save us -
Oh man kind?
we ask.
when will our salvation come -
that we seek earnestly?
when will our prayers receive answers
and when will our dining tables -
be filled with answered prayers.
we have toiled
and laboured unendingly
in the currency of our blood and sweat
yet as the sun winds down each day
Petitions we are -
made to serve like helpless vagrants
for our lifelines
to the wager in the high frosty office
as we seek his holiness
on the issue of our human rights.
When will we reap the greatness
preached in those good days of-
'when I am opportuned to serve'...
In this land -
Do the young princes ever become kings?
Will they ever stop singing tear-filled juju rhymes
that only scald the core of their verdant souls.
And will in our life time -
all the lofty prophecies,
yet proclaimed by the esoteric league of elites
from their respective constituencies
be fulfilled in this generation or the next-
if ever.
Is there Hope?
we entreat thee -
In the name of
all the wise prophets of the land
Answer us! -
the violated,
afflicted,
oppressed,
widowed
and we - the civil-combatants
who constantly struggle day and night
to stay alive
just for your heavenly Touch.
So today as always
we have stumbled into your altar
with burdened hearts and
mouth full of 'foolish' lamentations saying -
When will our redemption come?
when will our caged birds fly free?
when will these travails end?
And -
when will you come
to take us - Home.
who will save us -Oh man kind?
we ask.
when will our salvation come -
that we seek earnestly?
when will our prayers receive answers
and when will our dining tables -
be filled with answered prayers.
we have toiled
and laboured unendingly
in the currency of our blood and sweat
yet as the sun winds down each day
Petitions we are -
made to serve like helpless vagrants
for our lifelines
to the wager in the high frosty office
as we seek his holiness
on the issue of our human rights.
When will we reap the greatness
preached in those good days of-
'when I am opportuned to serve'...
In this land -
Do the young princes ever become kings?
Will they ever stop singing tear-filled juju rhymes
that only scald the core of their verdant souls.
And will in our life time -
all the lofty prophecies,
yet proclaimed by the esoteric league of elites
from their respective constituencies
be fulfilled in this generation or the next-
if ever.
Is there Hope?
we entreat thee -
In the name of
all the wise prophets of the land
Answer us! -
the violated,
afflicted,
oppressed,
widowed
and we - the civil-combatants
who constantly struggle day and night
to stay alive
just for your heavenly Touch.
So today as always
we have stumbled into your altar
with burdened hearts and
mouth full of 'foolish' lamentations saying -
When will our redemption come?
when will our caged birds fly free?
when will these travails end?
And -
when will you come
to take us - Home.
