When a city is taken over,
Ravaged and flattened to the earth,
Destroyed by the enemy,
and uprooted by the roots,
In so far as it didn't stand on its own
But by the commission and omission of all
Where will the good people be?
Will they be spared by the blind knife that kills?
Will they have an ark as of noah,
To shield them from harm?
Harm that they too have helped forment
But which they'ld want to run away now
When the Israelites made their gods,
They who made them knew of the danger ahead.
By compromise,those who never made them,
but made it not their business to speak against it,
Too were destroyed
And so the world is better not with thee,
Thee who keep quiet when idols are worshiped!
Thee who stand guard ,
At the offices of the corrupt.
Ye bystanders who know the wrong,
But find peace eating with the wrong doers,
Sharing their loot and keepin quiet.
The world is not destroyed by the wrong doers.
But by the good people who knowing of it keep quiet.
If Martin Luther kept quiet,
A hundred years may have passed,
With the same isolation and racism pervading,
till one of his ilk, lacking peace in silence,
Talked anti and against the vice.
If Mandela kept quiet,apartheid would still be.
Millions and millions of God's people treated as second class
Denied jobs,healthcare and conscious chained.
The oppressors were not bad ,
They have always not been bad people.
Anyone can be bad in the eyes of another!
Silence by the oppressed is the bad thing
And so i ask-
Why are all the good people silent?
When all this vice is happening in our world.
Why are all the good people silent?
When this is happening right next to our hamlets,
And right next to our perimeter fenced mansions.
Why are all the good people silent?
