Live In Hope - Mick Flannery

I walk the streets alone here, I go with head hung down

The heavens laugh so hard at me that I cannot bear the sound

A home to every lonely, an ear to every cry

An eye to every suffering and lost to reasons why

And of all the awful things I’ve heard

The worst must be those terrible words

If I don’t do it, that man will

Be it steal, rape or kill

I strive to be a good man, I know it serves me well

So how and when this start was made, I truly cannot tell

I’ve loved and I have been loved

I was not always true

And at times I feel to stay alone

Is the honest thing to do

Still in all I’ve best conceived

That I did fall in fleshy need

And taking water laced with sin

Seen what love is up against

My mind is full of worry, and wonder at itself

I search all day for answers, and nothing ever helps

I don’t believe the stories of high and holy ghosts

And if anything should matter, then what should matter most?

To the thought I will abide

That hate is foolish, love is wise

Words the old man softly spoke

Left the world to live in hope