In an Age of Innocence

In an age of innocence so long ago

When mind lay still and life leaped up in song

All the movements of our days were slow

And needs were few, we sorted right from wrong,

The family was a castle, safe and strong.

A simpler time in a quiet sleepy town

Where neighbours smiled and gardens ever new

Blossomed with the seasons and were sown

With care but still deep-rooted thistles grew

And prejudice unspoken flowered too.

Then Hitler rode upon the wakened beast

And children saw the family torn apart,

On earth the great Asura was released

Torment and pain the new demonic art

And night fell on the troubled human heart.

The evil now is easier to see

Torn are the coloured curtains of the mind

And earth confronts a dangerous destiny

Unless within the being's truth we find

An exit from the baser humankind.

When the soul is found we must break Falsehood's hold

Acknowledging the light that in us hides,

This human frame by God's design remould,

Reject the voice that whispers and divides

And feel the grace that now on earth resides.