- Amanda McKinney
Eyes to See
By Amanda McKinney
I am so blind!
Please, Lord help me to see!
Through this American Mask
Of pride and hypocrisy!
We are so broken,
Yet we think we know best;
Thus we impose upon the world
And with such flourish, oppress.
Who are we
To think we are gods?
All-triumphant pawns
Against all odds?
How audacious!
How absurd!
We are merely swine
Among the herd!
Please Lord, give me Your eyes
I wish not to be blind.
I want to see all as beauty
Not just preserved images in my mind.
You have created such diversity,
Such beauty, colors, creeds!
I want to have a heart for all,
Not merely comfortable breeds.
Lord, break me! Mold me!
Give me a heart like Yours!
Let my eyes be welled up!
And my soul completely torn!
I am overwhelmingly opulent
With no right to be so!
Lord, I cry to Thee!
Break me from this American mold!