A bird flies into my windowpane
and drops down to the floor.
So am I thus responsible?
I wish I could be sure.
Each step that I take through the fields
kills numerous living things.
The sullied feeling that I have
is what such slaughter brings.

You may say that’s “overreaction”
but it’s kindof what I feel.
Yet there are people in this world
who kill children with great zeal.
Why is the reverence that I have
for every kind of life
not shared by killers in jackboots
whose murderous ways are rife?

[Refrain]
Won’t you please bring me laughter,
and won’t you bring me joy?
I have spent a strange long lifetime
just watching folks destroy…
the earth.

Please don’t think I’m referring
(because I say “jackboots”)
to old-world Nazis and others
with whom they were in cahoots.
There are plenty of colonizers
from history past and now
who paint themselves as heroes —
although that I disavow.

If you are quietly thinking:
“This does not apply to me”,
are you supporting genocide
by proxy (fiendishly)?
By the way you vote, or think, or live,
by turning a blind eye,
immersed in wilful ignorance
and never asking “Why?”

[Refrain]
Won’t you please bring me laughter,
and won’t you bring me joy?
I have spent a strange long lifetime
just watching folks destroy…
the earth.

The stark conclusion that I’ve reached
is that all these evil folks
have hugely hardened hearts inside
which all good conscience chokes.
And so they will pursue their cause
thinking they are doing good —
‘policemen of the planet’      
spreading wide their foul Wormwood.

I wish I could appease you here
and tell you all is well,
and on the madness of the world
no longer need to dwell.
But these are just the onset years
of what is yet to come.
Such darkened days in front of us.
Forgive my ‘alarmism’.

[Refrain]
Won’t you please bring me laughter,
and won’t you bring me joy?
I have spent a strange long lifetime
just watching folks destroy…
the earth.

If you are on the right side —
the Christlike side of Light —
you’ll need some extra courage
to stand up for what is right.
You’ll be dragged away from comforts
to the courts of ‘kangaroo’;
maybe disappear forever —
God will be with you if you do.

Please forgive me if this ballad
disturbs you to the core.
I’m not telling God’s own people
what they didn’t know before.
They’ve been primed to meet this moment,
to withstand what lies ahead.
It must get worse before the Healing;
this time’s the watershed.

[Refrain]
Won’t you please bring me laughter,
and won’t you bring me joy?
I have spent a strange long lifetime
just watching folks destroy…
the earth.

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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2026
[The copyright on my works is merely to protect them from any wanton plagiarism which could result in undesirable changes (as has actually happened!). Readers are free to reproduce my work, so long as it is in the same format and with the exact same content and its origin is acknowledged]

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