How can you be so dead?

I've written this for an english assignment, text production in order to escape poster making :D
i wanted to write on something I'm passionate about without being so personal that I didn't want my teacher to read it, obviously. So here it is, I hope you guys like it, or are convicted by it, or feel something in some way lol.

On Witness

I’m told I hold the dearest truth

And ordered to protect it ruth-

lessly, to fight my way to God

and honestly, I find it odd

to have so tightly bound together

sweetest always, darkest nevers.

we twist His words in such a way

dement, distort, til clear they say

'Thou shalt defend, contain, preserve

traditions truth, for we deserve

to have this newness all our own

and never note how much they groan

of Pain and Death and Poverty

we must push on!' as they decree

‘thou shalt not laugh, or dance or love

those heathen dogs’, while we above

sit smirking, sneering, truth withheld

yet burning rubber’s telltale smell

does drift its way to those below

they crane their necks, and soon they know

the tinfoil lie we forged so well

is deadly, as the gates of hell

What of the Truth? of Grace divine?

We’d rather have communion wine.

Hide here in our iv’ry tower

Not by love, but lust for power

Our own comfort paramount

Broken hearts too menial to count

As anything worth risking for

So we sing hymns and bolt our doors

And guzzling down salvation shots,

Confess our sins?! Deny the lot!

Never mind the falling souls,

Their desp'rate echoes through our halls

And yet, I swear I heard him say

As bold as brass and clear as day

That we must love, all people, deep

Validate their hearts and keep

the knowledge firm, that ‘we are too’

just as lost, and far from you

Imagine now, if you still can

A world, despite the fall of man

Where we could trust, and hold eachoth’r

Acting justly to our brothers

And share with all, this hope, this grace

See love colour every face

It’s not as far as it may seem

Not a fairytale or dream

But true

and real,

attainable.

If we will

just

reach

out