Elthe Kyrie

Elthe Kyrie, for we stand divided.

Come Lord and witness our shame

exposed to Thine horrified eyes.

Elthe Kyrie and spit at our hypocrisy

while our fiery words betray

our abject fears and cowardice.

Have Thine gaze feed on our souls

so diminished, so ill and misbegotten,

so tainted by our creeds that have fallen

and lie at or feet, irredeemably rotten.

See how our mind misconstrued,

how our pettiness despoiled, and

how our hatred ran rampant,

unchecked and self-effacing.

Witness, Oh Lord, who we cannot,

will not back up our actions with temperance

and will not back down in its absence...

See how we have created enemies

and demons of the Other

and refused to see how, in doing so,

we all have become

the only enemy there is.

Elthe Kyrie and cleanse this awful sin

of  our rejection of Thine rule!

Give us Thine light to remind us

what is once was to be human!

Come Lord, for we need Thee

now more than ever...

Elthe Logos Kyrie...

Come Lord Reason

 and leave us never.

Come Reason and guide

us all, forever.