A Call of Duty

Lord give me the guidance to see right from wrong.

Give me the wisdom to write of what must be undone.

Help me to understand that protest now

Seems alarmingly about how

Europeans fear capitalism is about to treat them,

When for years it’s been killing other millions.

Let us recognise this isn’t about saving our own kin

But ending a system that starves shades of darker skin.

May those who look like me

Ignore lies delivered by people they see

As looking like themselves.

Relating to stories they tell

Which are unfounded.

Please keep me grounded

When I become frustrated at tales of benefit cheats

Yet your Son loved the meek,

For let them inherit the earth

From tax haven funds of trillions more worth.

Let us reveal that the credit crunch

Has shown us every day is in fact White History Month,

As an unraveling system of economic oppression

Shows itself as colonialism by financial intervention.

May we remember that history is not a gone and forgotten,

But an evolution of the past into a rotten

Present and future. There is no line

Between now and yesteryear. Time

Is the fruit of what was sown.

Those who have, don’t want that known.

Lord, please give us the wisdom to see what is,

What was, and what should be. Let ignorant bliss

Fall, as Martin Luther King knew the score

Of white moderates being the greatest threat to the poor.

Blindly living a lie that beds them with the people

Who perpetrate the greatest forms of evil.

Help us to see that quality of life resides in the hearts

Still pumping because we choose life over the parts

Of smart phones that cause girls to be violated

For raw materials that see villages annihilated.

May we undo what the Bible and guns,

In white hands have done.

For our morality has been defined by our inventions,

Musket and sail allowed slavery through military intervention.

May the Good Book’s pages be turned so that we find

That you love those with strength who are humble and kind.

And show us that advancement comes not from the material.

But from the evolution of the human spirit. All

Wealth to be shared,
Food, shelter and welfare.

Our call of duty not for modern warfare.

Simply a world for all… Fair.