The Shelf of Faith

Such a troubled world in which we live
People who suffer with no reason to find
Messed up genetics, messed minds
Children by thousands starving day by day
Death's dark maw satisfied never
Children with cancer, old folks with Alzheimer's
Wars and rumors of war, no peace in our time
Why all the tyrants, why all the blood?
The death of children and suffering so needless
How can the mind and the spirit bear it?
Where are you God in the midst of this mess?
Where are you in the midst of our darkness?
In the midst of the horrors?
In the midst of our pain?
Where are you in the suffering of my son
"Eli, Eli lama Sabachthani"
These are things I can not answer
These are things I can not explain
Tell me what can I do
Tell me how can I cope
Where is the promise?
Where is the hope?
That's when I heard,
"Put them upon the shelf of Faith"
And so I will do,
But give me a ladder!

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