You who clean the outside of cup and dish.
And leave the inside full of extortion and incompetence.
We are very keen to cherish.
Anything that appeals to our selfish sense.

We stuff away anything unpleasant in a hidden drawer of the mind.
We leave others to look at our perfect outside.
We think we are being polite and kind.
Really we just bob on fashion’s tide.

It is easy to pay our dues.
To hand over life’s tax.
But we leave after us few clues.
Although nothing we think lacks.

But mercy, faith, justice, and understanding.
That is left far behind, our faith notwithstanding.