How Did it Come to This?

Oh sisters, dearest sisters,

why sell yourselves like this?
Why give yourselves to lusts of man,
reject the wonder of God's plan,
his designs for your great bliss?

Oh tell me, tell me, how did it come to this?

My beautiful ones, my sisters,
how can you be so blind?
In your dress men see not the core,
see but the body, nothing more
as they rape with eyes and mind.

My heart is breaking, dearest sisters! How did it come to this?

Do you not know my sisters,
that you were made for so much more?
Men see you now as game pursued,
notches on the post and playthings used,
treat you not like royal princess, but a whore.

I weep for you, my sisters! How did it come to this?

I wish for you my sisters,
that you might open yourselves to love.
Challenge men to treat you as they ought,
as souls that should be protected, honored, not objects bought.
Show them what your person is truly of!

I see you sisters and wonder, how did it come to this?

And I ask unto you, my brothers,
whence came this fateful day?
That we now listen to worldly lies,
that cloaked beneath fair-seeming guise
bid us sell our strength away.

Such lies, such lies, my brothers! How did it come to this?

How did it come, my brothers,
that our selfish lusts we seek?
Pursue women, power, wealth at length,
in which the world tells us lies our strength,
but in truth surely makes us weak.

What fools we are, my brothers! How did it come to this?

What sin and folly, brothers,
that our strength we now misuse!
Strength that should be used to love, protect,
now at cost of our sisters runs unchecked,
as with eyes and hearts we abuse.

Alas, my warrior brothers! How did it come to this?

Where lies our strength my brothers,
our call in times of strife?
Not to use but to love and shield,
before dark temptation never yield,
though it cost our very life.

How far we fall, my brothers! How did it come to this?

Tell me world, oh tell me!
Do you think our life is this?
To grab what we can for ourselves,
as we live inside our little Hells,
can't you see what is amiss?

This is not the truth, my brethren! How did it come to this?

Oh people, if these selfish truths are real,
tis a sad and shrunken Earth.
Till we turn back to love and sacrifice,
from lives of selfish thoughts and mortal vice,
our world is fatally cursed.

We were made for more, oh people! How did it come to this?