Hypocrisy

what have we become..?

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When I awoke this morning
Getting ready for the day
I looked into the mirror
I saw a teardrop on my face

It puzzled me so greatly
As I slowly combed my hair
I could not place the why or when
Or the thought that put it there

I thought about the night before
The days that had gone by
Of all the things I might have felt
To put a teardrop in my eye

I remember in the paper
I read the day before
Headlines coming back to me
As I felt the tears once more

They found a newborn baby
That was loosely stashed
In an alley, in a dumpster
Under a bag of trash
Fifteen people died today
In a senseless shooting spree
Throats were slashed- and heads were bashed
Because we disagree

Some father burned his house down
As his children slept inside
A mother slowly smothered
Her babies as they cried
Doctors kill the unborn
But we kill the doctors too
It seems heinous- but who could blame us
It’s the Christian thing to do

There’s genocide, and suicide
But we needn’t feel ashamed
God knows it is not our fault
It’s those violent video games
Maybe it’s the TV
Or the radios to blame
The fault may be a million things
It’s really all the same

Somewhere we lost compassion
We lost the human touch
We gave up on each other
We gave up on so much
It’s become so Goddamn mundane
It’s become so damn insane
That we’ve lost the very essence
Of what makes us all the same

So if the words upon this paper
Bring a teardrop to your eye
Don’t wipe away to forget about
The reason that you cry
You’ll wake up in the morning
See the tear upon your face
Know it’s not the why it’s there
The why not’s have left their trace