Inhumanity

Thank you, Lord, for giving me

The will to be free.

Or is it free will you gave to me?

There's a big difference, you see.

Free will, given indiscriminately,

Hurts and kills innocents virulently.

Was free will oversight, or strategy

For immoral fiends to commit atrocity?

Perhaps it was plain lack of foresight.

All-knowing and all-seeing,

You couldn't foresee the inhumanity,

The killing fields that became reality.

Forgive me, Lord, for doubting thee.

But the record is troubling, you see.

Millions suffer and die prematurely

At the hands of despots like Pol Pot,

Hitler, Stalin, Marcos, Putin & Xi,

And endless more throughout history!