Babel Under Our Feet : Modern Poetry

The Governments know why

 it had to be that way .

While no one's on their knees

in an effort to pray .

People in the stock exchange

always push and shove .

There's too many with greed

and not enough who love .

If God can bring the walls

like Babel crashing down ,

Stock markets and futures

would have to hit  hard ground  .

While the hungry die each day

where once some crops grew .

Mission workers in the field,

labourers are few .

Can you hear the sound

of hungry cries in the town  .

Have you seen the way

they're walking on stony ground.

In our cities it has become

wilderness bare.

Bable has been buried

 underneath the concrete there .

Governments united

can only do so much.

The helpless and needy

they're unable to touch.

Can you stop it now

 before it comes crashing down .

Gods wake up call ,

mountains can fall down to the ground .

Open your eyes , 

see the cracks in humanity .

We're all in the same boat

and we are all sea sick.

On board a floating bubble

it bursts with a prick .

The we're all drowning in a sea

of man made pain .

Have mercy on our souls

if love should die in vain .

By Paul Mc Cann