SKEPTIC

 

To believe in a tomorrow

Where a man can live in peace,

Would be to have delusions

That hate in man will cease.

I would need to see the world

Through a different telescope

And see in eyes of children

A flicker left of hope.

I would need to see the end

Of incessant human greed

And see that humans know

A want is not a need.

I would need to see that man

Believed in a living God

And that a man can live

After buried in the sod.

I wish that I could see

The world through different eyes,

And see all men as love

That no one need despise.

Until I see these things in man,

I hold no hope for peace,

For God can see the heart of man

And said there’ll be no peace.