Human Race

Somehow 

somewhere along the way

we fell through a hole

in the heart of our race

we forgot that we were born okay

we forgot that we belong to the earth

and that she does not belong to us

from her we are born, and to her we all shall return 

Somehow

somewhere along the way

greed planted a seed

and the human race

in an attempt to save face

decided to descend from grace

we became a culture of greed

based around what we see as our never-ending need

Somehow

somewhere along the way

 we forgot that we were made of stars

that we are infinite possibility

only caged by our own beliefs

And so we go on

fighting our holy wars

in the name of Gods 

who's meanings we have long since forgotten

Religions come and go

Gods live and die

yet we continue

to perpetuate the lie

that we are different,

you and I

And so we have become

a culture of genocide

as our governments lie and devide

in the name of a country's pride

 

Creating a race

who is forgetting the meaning of human being

in its race against being human

where we don't want our governments

to tell us who to love

and how to live

yet

we accept that they tell us who to hate

they tell us who to kill

 in a race to the bottom wherein we believe

that war is the cost of peace

and rights must be sacrificed in the name of security

We raise our children on war games

and we lie to them

when we tell them

that they are not one and the same

that their pain

is more than that of the person next door

and so we fight

in the name of Gods that will one day lie forgotten

and so we have become

a world misbegotten

 because we no longer remember

that I am who I am

and you are who you are

and inside

we are all the same.

We are the human race
so caught up in believing
that we have forgotten the power of thinking
we have forgotten
that there is nothing more dangerous
 and nothing more beautiful
than an intelligent and articulate mind
so we land where they tell us to take our stand
we forget that we belong to the land
we eat what they feed us
and so we believe what they see in us.