Where Hope Blooms

The land is barren, silent, still

A whisper for what it had been

Just silent winds, forgotten, weak

Replace the voice who used to speak

The sky is crimson with our sins

A world where only hate begins

We point, we blame, we turn away

As if we didn’t shape decay

We say we care for love and light

Yet turn against it on first sight

Then judge and hurt and pay no mind

To silent pain, we’re only blind

We build our life in taller towers

Hoping we will become survivors

But what of others, those that drown

Get swallowed whole without a sound

Yet somewhere beneath all the rust

A single seed begins to cast

Its light upon the waking day

A fragile hope won’t stay at bay

Yes, there on the broken ground

Where nothing pure was meant to sprout

A flower, small, yet standing tall

Shows the future to us all

‘Cause maybe someday we will learn

To reach for those who simply yearn

Where hope does not ask for permission

And quietly blooms with no condition

Since flesh and blood are all the same

No race can claim the human name

No war, no wall can tear apart

What beats within of our heart