Our suffering world, turning in the hands of fools
In the grasp of tyrants, clutching
Our suffering world, cracked, bled and bursting
Its treasures stolen from the earth
The people are crying, wandering among ruins
Blinded by despair, to the future
Consumed by greed, confused and ignorant
The people are murmuring
The prophets are speaking, the seas are swelling
The sun scorches, and the earth burns
Starvation and thirst, come for the people
The voiceless people, agonized
Apathy and scorn, no recourse for the victims
Tongues shrivel in blackened mouths
Our suffering world, for humanity’s achievements
Purchased with pain and misery
Our suffering world, its monuments forgotten
Shrines and memorials crumble in the storm
Reduced to nothing, desperation ensuing, trapped
In a nightmare without waking
Global disasters, depravities reoccurring
Sanctified in law