Fallen World

I look outside into a clouded, greying sky

I feel the sorrow, yet no tears burn in my eyes

I ask a question and the tide begins to swell

Why does the world around me

Often feel like Hell?

I feel so all alone

My flesh, it crawls

My spirit groans

We try, we struggle to undo the damage done

We burn our lives away in vain beneath the sun

There is a reason why the road we tread is hard

It should be different but our lineage is marred

We work the land alone

No love can grow

From hearts of stone

Man and Woman, He made them

To fill and master all the earth

But the serpent deceived

And God's children believed

Then passed the sickness on through birth

We bear the cost of their offense

But God has not left us for dead

He sent his Son as recompense

And He did crush the serpent's head

And so the answer is not found by human force

But when I reckon with my sin and know remorse

I give my heart up to the Maker of it all

The One who cared enough

To come and catch my fall

I am more then flesh and bone

This fallen world is not my home

Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so

I know my Redeemer lives

And in the end He will stand

Upon the earth