I Have Heard the Songs

I have heard the songs of the higher spheres

And live to bring that subtle music down

Alleviate the suffering and tears

And make celestial symphonies our own.

The present age is one of disbelief

Or twisted values in a world awry,

We see around us death and human grief

And hear the fanatic sound of Terror's cry.

We cannot change the world unless we change,

Our 'isms' are diluted palliatives

Our faiths, our creeds do little but estrange

The love and unity that in us lives.