If the earth is the Lord’s
And all peoples are God’s
Then humanity’s child
Escaping inhumanity’s wild
war scenes of horror
Fleeing oppression threshing floor
Learned corruption generating poor
Hunger induced
through environmental abuse
- colonialization’s legacy
at odds with native peoples
respect for earth’s sanctity
Navigating icy Channel waters
Exposed to freeze on Belarusian borders
Searching for promised refuge
On heavenly streets of gold
stolen from the poor
Prey of human trafficker
Trading in stock market gold
Pawns for neo colonial hirer
Deep yearning for freedom
In not your own Kingdom
Must everywhere know
As every land owns
God’s landscape where they go.
The earth is the Lord’s
And all people are God’s
Why new heaven on earth
Must come in place
And in abundance of grace
Sure refuge provide
As temperatures rise
And hell’s fires blaze
Through Australian summer
Or Siberian winter
Carbon emissions rise
Though COP prioritise
Then compromise
Too hard to unlearn
Showing caring concern
After history of division
Rich versus poor
Two sides we’ll have always
Till heaven on earth
Evens God’s landscape.