Lift up the Lowly

The rich are arrogant
Trusting in their wealth
That they robbed from the poor
In a variety of most decent ways

Lord, make the poor resent
Resent very effectively
Until the rich go empty
And the poor filled with riches

Lord, make the poor impatient
With all kinds of aid
Including the live and sport aid
Until the poor aid themselves

The rich tell us
That the bounty they have
Is the bounty of the Lord
Never realizing that it is the bounty of the poor

Lord, make the poor reject
All the Holy Heresies
Always substantiated by the Holy Bible
No matter whether they come from the Ordained or the Lay

Lord, make the poor awake
To the raw realities of history and politics
Also to religion
That keeps the poor always asleep. Amen and Amen.

* I wrote this in 1986 and was first published in UK!