Hearts of Darkness

There you revel and rage

Hidden from our view

And often in plain sight

Camouflaged await your queue

And here we are

The remarkable and the mundane

Going about our routines

Both on the good and bad falls the rain

And though we don’t know you

You find hate for us still

Not satisfied oppressing your own

Our sense of safety you’d kill

And so you plot with your small minds

And you weave a web of lies

Ensnare outcasts, the rebels, and the cruel

Ignore your own countrymen’s cries

Arrogant and small-minded you smirk

And sell your eternity for worthless Jihad

Unknowing pawns of the great serpent

Abuse of power your lightning rod

Raise your bloodied fists in empty victory

You waste prayers on empty space

Under your jackboots we’re trampled

In fear we cower sheltered in place

Still there is something you don’t get

Your naïve belief in misguided cause

Can’t fathom that the joke’s on you

Can’t see you’re caught in great lion’s jaws

So hard to pity the bullies of this world

To feel care for those darkened souls

And yet you are the deceived and lost

It’s for you judgement’s bell tolls

Some will never forgive you

Most will never forget

You’ll not find many merciful

For some anger’s sun will never set

And yet there are those called

By the one and truly King

To rise above our earthly pains

And to pray despite the sting

For He has dealt a victory

By our great enemy’s defeat

Our eternity signed and sealed

Transgressions erased at His mercy seat

Though you are our enemy

And we’re right to feel our anger burn

We’re called to pray for you just the same

And pray one day your hearts will turn

That He’ll speak to you in dreams and visions

And God’s Son will meet you there

That the bitter chains of your slavery

One day you’ll no longer bear

So for now you rage and fight

Wage war over false prophet’s lies

And stumbling in your hypocrisy

From you goodness takes wing and flies

As for me and my house

We’ll continue to follow the Lord

But until you utter repentance  

God’s great wrath for you is stored