How To Explain?

They say they'll be there

at heaven's gate:

the one's who pray

and congregate.

If we do the same

we'll be at the feast,

but how to explain

a paedophile priest?

They say we have made

some great works of art:

Shakespeare, Da Vinci,

Van Gogh, Mozart.

A world full of wonder,

it's all quite a tale,

but how to explain

what we did to the whale?

They say we are healthy

and very well off:

us in the west

with food in the trough.

We're fat and rich,

no problem, well maybe,

but how to explain

a starving small baby?

They say we're the cream

of all creation:

mankind is the tops

from every nation.

We've mastered the world

in such a short age,

but how to explain

a bird in a cage?

Now I feel angry,

don't know what to do.

I should have spoken,

should've been true.

All done in my name,

of that there's no doubt,

but how to explain

if I never shout out?