Prove Me Wrong

Who told you life was easy?

Who told you life was fair?

Why do you think that you deserve

The same?

Who told you that all humans

Treated their peers and friends

With kindness and each other serve?

As equals?

Never have I known an Earth

Where such a race as ours can live

Without meaningless conflict and

Bloodshed

Never have I walked this world

Without fear that we had destroyed

This planet with our own too righteous hand?

Destroyed our souls?

And I did fight, when I was young

The same battles we pass

Unto thy generations young

Without reason

Now you must serve the evil that

We serve without a conscious thought

And cut down hopes so bravely hung

On tomorrow

And once I wondered why I cared

For could a better Earth exist? 

But I conclude there is no place

That is fair

And now I've learned that nothing will

Come of the fleeting efforts made

To serve our brothers, every race

For we've made our choice clear

We'd rather hate than love, it seems

Rather die in battle 

Than give up guns that mean nothing

Important

And it is human nature to

Hate! That's what I was told

Unless the soul can grow strong wings

And fly

It is too late to change what we

Had laid the foundations upon

And build this prison, strong and tall

That cages all of us

Do you think that you can break down

The walls we built in silence?

Well, I think hatred cannot fall

And crumble

I ask of you, just one more thing

For in the past I've failed

And now I beg your army of peace

To prove me wrong