Mercy

Is this your idea of mercy, Lord?
Is this the best you can do for us,
For your people, who struggle and
Toil and cry and yell?
We work and we work and we search after you
And all we receive in return are
Broken hearts
Closed doors
Hopes destroyed.
Is this your idea of mercy?

Is this your idea of mercy, Lord?
Is this what you had planned for us
In your sovereignty?
We, who have left houses and fields,
Family and friends to follow you?
You take and you take and still you want more,
Unsatisfied in your quest for all of us,
Every part of us
Everything we've built, everything we've done
(we did it for you).
Is this your idea of mercy?

Is this your idea of mercy, Lord?
That all we have be shattered?
Endings, with no beginnings in sight?
For losses, failures, insufficiencies?
Is this your idea of mercy?