How long

How long, O God

  will we ignore the cries

Your poor people

  our poor people

Made from one family

  created in your image

Women, men, children

  who help us see beyond

The veil of this thin life

  revealed and yet not seen

So we lift our cries

  and hope for notice

Pray for a world to change

  waiting for care and compassion

Let us hear

  let us turn and care

Because if our turn comes

  we will wish for it

Yet if we have not done

  there will be no one to hear