We Sing For Life
© Surazeus
2025 02 22

We sing about what breaks our hearts the most,
and present noble visions of the good
we hope we can achieve where we fail the worst,
for what we praise with eager heart of hope
is what we feel we lose with grim despair,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We gather in groups on broad river shores
to remember the terrible event
that almost wiped our ancestors off Earth
with solemn ceremony of sad prayers,
then feast in honor of the noble dead,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We wander together across the land,
our feet blazing trails that become the roads
where our descendants walk ten thousand years,
singing about the sorrow of our loss
and about our hope for the Promised Land,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We write the stories of our painful lives
with sticks in shifting sand on beach of time,
but laugh when ocean waves of moonlit tides
erase our stories from heart of the Earth,
then we bury our parents by the tree,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We hide our memories in the polished box
Pandora gave us as the Christmas gift
to preserve photographs of those we love
with keys that open doors to homes and cars
that burn down and get left on the trash heap,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We build our homes from memories of fear
to shelter our hearts from terrible dread
when we huddle together under trees
against bitter cold winds and blasting rains
to stay clean and warm from the elements,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We construct machines with passionate hope
to produce more food for people to eat
after we suffer centuries of famine,
but still millions have not enough to eat
while rich men enslave us in factories,
so we sing for life even as we die.

We write songs of joy from sorrows of loss
and hymns of happiness from bitter pain
to sing about the paradise we want
while still surviving through chaotic hell
as if we hope to manifest vain hope,
so we sing for life even as we die.

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Orpheus writes and sings hymns to praise the rich and famous people who rule the world from their shining palace on the hill.

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