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Why Does God Let That Happen?

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You ask:
Why does God let that happen?
Why does He let people starve,
Let earthquakes kill,
Dictators enforce their selfish will?
Why does He let rainfalls flood,
Let orphans cry,
Let innocent people get hurt and die?
Why does He let families break,
Let countries fight,
Let racism, sexism think they're right?
You ask why He lets that happen
But that's not the question.
On careful reflection,
It occurred to me that I'm not perfection.

So the question is:
Why do I let it happen?
Why do I eat and drink
Without having to think
What the starving feel?
Why do I have a television,
A radio, the Internet
To tell me about disasters that haven't happened yet?
Why do I envy power and pride
So that dictators have nothing to hide?
How much have I given to
The orphans and the dying?
Why do I say nothing when countries are trying
To blow each other up?
Why am I not bothered by
This racism, sexism, every other ism – why?
So I ask myself:
Why do I let that happen?

But I'm not that special,
So the question becomes:
Why do we let that happen?
Why do we buy away
The food that they grow
For prices ridiculously low?
How come earthquakes here don't kill
As many as the ones far away?
Is it because our expensive houses
Aren't made from clay?
Why do we breed values that state
It's okay to hate
And then watch dictators follow that fate?
Why do we let our environment drown
In the mess that we made so that flood rains fall down?
Why are we content to see
Orphans live in poverty?
Why do we turn deaths into numbers,
Broken families into statistics,
Root for countries when they plan their logistics
To hurt millions in war
And judge people before we learn more?
So the real question is:
Why do we let that happen?

Because we're busy naming
The people we could be blaming,
Cursing God for what we see
So that we can shirk responsibility.
This is how we decided to use
The freedom we have to choose,
And on Judgement Day
Someone will say,
"Why did you let that happen?"
Let's take responsibility.
© 2010 - 2024 Proudchinese
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Caecenni's avatar
Ya know, I clicked getting ready to point out that it's our fault, not His, and... well... Ya beat me to it, I'll put it that way. Hopefully people see this.