The Big Lie

A ribbon of materialism blinds us Closing our eyes to the truth In our pursuit for temporal satisfaction We erased our inherent instincts to Love We shredded our communal responsibilities Replacing them with individualism and competition We found pleasure in the business of accumulating things And stayed away from feeding the poor and caring for the sick We are disgusted by the nature of our true selves And we trample on the path of the spirit We gather around materialism And worship daily In our busy schedules and tight timelines We forgot one another And refused to love our neighbours as we love ourselves We tended our gardens And neglected our hearts We embraced new technologies And rejected silence and prayer We opened new avenues of wealth creation And abandoned our spiritual wealth We have been fed a big lie And we are wallowing in a pool of selfishness We wait for sickness, disaster or death to show us our nakedness It's time to open our eyes And see our true selves We are a people of hope, faith and Love ©