This house we live has now become our home - Dennis Sobers

This house we live has now become our home

Despite the roof that leaks and walls tattered and is torn

Looking in the past at what this mansion once was

How has it come to be this way, what is the cause

Babies grown in plastic tubes just for them to understand

Mother feel the kick in the womb before it's kicked into the can

No time for the breast so lives on scientific food

No money for a sitter, leave them home with the tube

Immoral acts have changed to a happy affair

But your brother is a brother no matter what clothes he wear

The marriage bed once white has the letters triple X and is blue

With vows now to love honor and cherish until they find someone new

What does the clergy say, they happily bless with their sign

Believing they are going way up leaving everyone else behind

But with their hands so filled with blood and lives so bitterly defiled

They murdered their very own and can't keep their hands off of the child

White kill white Blacks kill blacks because they have a different name

Children putting their parents away leaving them in heartfelt shame

Turn to Him above before things get any worst

So they call to the Lord in prayer then use him in a curse

Work and toil in the field just to buy back what you grew

And with pesticides and chemicals it's giving less back too

A glut of food in the field, the system pays to destroy without fuss

So we send shuttles to the moon while millions bites at it's dust

When it takes a disaster for your neighbor to lend hand

When music of demons lead you telling you where to stand

when people look down on themselves and so try to get up high

Despite all these pains and problems the world will never die

The only question to the thoughts above is to ask yourself why

Despite all this in our home the question to be asked is why.

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Dennis Sobers (20th century) Barbados

Source: Barbados - Poems and Poetry