Your Face
Our world is a place,
A chance to meet, a chance to greet
Our brothers of a different race.
Boundries of invisible lines,
Bound together by earth and sea.
Why do we commit such crimes?
Where are our hearts?
Have we lost our soul?
Deep down it starts,
Why do we offend thee so?
Our earth, our birth, our rights
To live: freedom is a part of us,
Yet here we are not ending fights,
Not sharing love from above.
Stepping on man until he crys,
Enjoying power to control
Our brothers of a different race,
Loosing our lives, our very soul
That was given to us by grace.
Why do we offend thee so?
Pray for us, that we
Should turn our hearts from stone,
To fires that begin to burn.
Seek our God, give him our lives,
Let him wrap us in His arms...
Oh Lord of Love, hear our crys.
We yearn to love you so.
By loving you, by keeping you
Close to our lives, our hearts
Will soon begin to grow.
We will SEE our brothers
Of a different race and
In them we will see
YOUR FACE.
Lyllian Crenshaw-Sapp
02/12/00
