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GET REAL
We^re born into this world forlorn
escaping astronomical brainstorm
leaving a warm blissful basin of dreams
squeezing through the narrow passage to freedom
being awakened by our own dreadful screams
drinking eating and fertilizing the earth
discovering latter it was all done in vain
feeling emotion and intellectual pain
through the years shows up as gain
we didn^t have the words to speak
all we did just seemed a treat
to those who wallowed in deceit
the world we live in^s not so sweet.
Murderers mingle in the malls
perverts speak in tenement halls
rapists reap the joy of all
liars speak the word of God
love of mammon drives us on
social status is our call
if we fail we surely fall
if we don^t we merely fade
the greatest success is not yet paid
a crutch a cane to ease the strain
in lieu of accepting Jesus^ pain
sensuous opulence the incomparable appeal
after all we must get real.
21 August 1994