I know

I know who’s in charge, know who sees

 Mankind’s empty ambitions, vanity, greed.

God will teach us, help us to learn, to know

                Events of our earth won’t always go

            The way clever Leaders have planned them.

                     He’s there to help us understand

             The affairs of earth are within his hands

                  Men’s eyes are blind, they fail to see

                     The way things really ought to be

                             Intervenes to let us know

                      The way lives on the earth should go

                    In wisdom's way he’s there to remind us

                         Until our better self will find us

                         Until we wake up and understand

                 The affairs of the earth are within his hand.

 

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                                                                      Decline

Behold, Nations on a steady decline

Rebellion, war, hunger, murder, crime.

Stumbling towards the downward road

The poor always bear the heavier load.

How long will it take until People see?

Only love and compassion will set them free

Commandments are given for men to keep

For only then will earth nations reap

The happiness promised by father above

Of freedom, contentment, joy and love.

Ingrids Auswahl - Ingrids Poetry (185)

 

                                                                   In disarray

Turn on the News

Watch our youth

 Around the world in disarray

Never much reasons to think beyond self

All they needed and wanted

Always there on the shelf

Never known a reason to give

Never a reason for which to live

They shout, complain we hear them say

We don’t want these rules

That take our choices,

 Our freedom away

Where have we failed them, 

Where did things go wrong

Where the joy of being young?

 Their spirits cry’s out “We need a reason to live”

Reasons to fight for, reasons to give

To feel wanted, needed, to do a good deed

So, they join the milling crowds in the street.

Our voice must be heart, we will not be defeated

Even thou we know at times we are greeted

By angry Police, see, in black they are dressed

To calm the crowds, to settle unrest

Our numbers grow larger with each passing day

Politicians please hear to what we say

We are fighting for justice for people oppressed

For all underdogs from the east to the west

Equality for all men they cry,

It is time for injustice to pass us by.

See: They have found a reason,

A place where to meet

With their friends and neighbours

Around the world in many a street.

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                                                                   I have Looked

I have looked at this world

From within, from without,

The longer I look, the lesser the doubt,

That all of her beauty is like unto a shroud,

To hide the true purpose of life.

We hurry, we toil three score years and more,

To build up this sphere made of clay.

Where power and greed, unceasing strife

Are the forces which bar,

The narrow road to eternal life.