How Did We Get So Far Lost? Poem by Adam M Snow

How did we get so far lost? At what cost? The emptiness in our homes where a father should be, or the lies they tell us, telling us we're free. But hey, I digress. I'll break it down so you'll know the rest. Like when they say it's ok to kill an unborn child on any given day. The very thought sickens me to my core, knowing that their beating hearts beat no more. Where's that motherly love that would fight for her child not to die. Was their life worthless? Please, tell me why? That baby you had ripped from your womb, was your greatest gift, not an unforseen doom. Had that child lived and proven their worth, such great talent they would be on this great earth. But we'll never know, because you never gave them a chance to grow so they could glow. But now it's too late, but I berate. Now let's talk about that absent father, how could you wander farther and leave your family alone. Why can't you atone? God gave you a gift and you threw it aside. Don't you care about the countless nights they've cried. Countless nights crying, begging for you to return. Aren't you even concerned? This is your wife, your children, your flesh and blood, your very family whom you loved. Are they really nothing to you? Tell me it's not true. Cause without a father, your child's a criminal and without her husband, your wife's miserable. So where are you absent fathers? You should be raising your sons and daughters, teaching them right from wrong. So tell me why are you gone? Your family is an indistinguishable wreck, they're broken, that should be a reality check. You should be the strength, the glue which holds them together, but your absence has put a wedge, pulling them apart further from each other. You should be working hard and fighting for your family, not giving up. This is blasphemy. Now for you who thinks racism ends by focusing on one race. You are so wrong, I'll tell you why so please don't spit in my face. They say if a house is on fire, you don't focus on all the homes but only the one ablaze. But that is not how I was raised. You don't put one race above them all, because if you do the others will fall. But the truth in the matter is, there's not just one house ablaze but a whole neighborhood waiting to be saved, but you only feel sorry for that one. How can you not see the damage behind you, waiting to be undone. The moral of this story is, if you want to end racism, we gotta work on it together because if you focus only on one race, it puts a wedge separating us from each other and that allows for hatred to over power love. And this hatred we have, it isn't something we should be proud of. As I see us fall deeper into darkness and this world becomes such a mess. I speak with God every night, I know there's still hope for us that's why ask the Father, 'Lord make me a light! ' So when people see me, they see hope that they too can be free. Believe it or not, I know what or should I say who can save our humanity. Because He alone can set all captives free. It is in Him where we find peace, where our pain is gone and we're at ease. It is in Him where we find love, shining down upon us from above. But we cast Him out and without a doubt we did it out of pride. We cast Him out and since then this country died. But I've seen dead men come back to life with no worries or strife. But I say, we need a reminder, something to cope because this darkness is temporary for there is still hope. I wear my reminder around my neck, a symbol of great sacrifice by a man who gave his own life so that we can be free and have eternal life. Again, we cast Him out. We cast Him out of our schools, our courthouses and even our homes. We cast Him out leaving us alone, but I say we should for our very sins, atone. But we are so prideful and would rather be lost. I say, how many lives must we exhaust? How many more blood must be shed? How many more must wound up dead? It hurts me to see, the path of our humanity. Yet still I fall to my knees, they only way I know how. Crying every night to our Father, 'God, we need you now! ' But you know what He tells me? 'I set you a light like a city on a hill, that can't be hidden. So make a difference and change the world. Show them My love that has been forbidden and a hope not yet forgotten. Show them this world isn't fully rotten.' There's still hope for us, we're not fully lost. If we do what He told us, to love without a fuss our neighbors and friends. Keep loving each other till the very end, because we don't have much time left. I tell you this, because I know what's best. What I say is true, listen my family, my friends and my neighbors, I love you. I love you like how Christ loves you, because that is what we should do. Love one another, not hate. To love, a much better fate than hate. So fathers, fight for your family with love. Mothers, show your babies they are loved. Brothers and sisters, no matter the race. Let's put aside our hate and love. There's one thing I know and I know I'm right, hatred is what divides but love is what unites.