Original Sin

For those who are silenced or misunderstood
For all the brokenness in this world
I speak with a power un-paralleled
Conviction behind every word
You'll feel that it's different the second that you become witness
Can you envision what I see in the midst of our broken society?
Can you feel for why I bleed?
This is about much more than you and me
This is about justice
This is about slavery
Running, always running
Do we know any other pace?
It seems we don't
Isn't that something?
That we will always win the race?
But I have to wonder what keeping ahead means
When everything we're chasing means absolutely nothing
I have to wonder how we can't see the ways in which we've lost touch with our surroundings
We have to slow down and wake up to the stench
If we can't smell it, then we're already dead
Dead as the mindsets that we use
Dead as the crutches we abuse
Dead as the things that we consume
Why did we have to become so far removed?
We abandoned our true nature in the fragile state of our youth
Our world view is compromised by the actions that we choose
This life was never meant to be "you take from me, I take from you"
Yet this is how we live
Looking for what we can take rather than what we can give
This is the ORIGINAL SIN
Rejecting the truth THAT WE CAN FEEL FROM WITHIN
It's such a shame we must be shaken to see it worth it to awaken
We move so quickly we can't see the desperate state of our reality (Earth)