SowHope Song
Beryl*
Distant and forgotten
Half a world away
A life that holds no future
Holds on for one more day
Just around the corner
Half a block away
Despair has found another bed
Upon which it will lay
So we must stand up for our sister
For she cannot stand at all
We must enter in her struggle
So she can stand up tall
Chorus:
Sow hope, sow deep
In the heart of every woman
Every girl in need
Sow fields of dreams
Though their lives have been a desert
Scatter wide the seeds
Sow hope…
From India to Africa
And places in between
Women raped in the fields at night
For lack of a latrine
Little girls, six years old
Cut upon the rocks
Crimson stain, flowing down
If only rocks could talk
They’d be questioning our silence
And our apathetic gaze
They’d be crying out, can you hear them
shout?
Won’t somebody save?
Half a world away
A life that holds no future
Holds on for one more day
Just around the corner
Half a block away
Despair has found another bed
Upon which it will lay
So we must stand up for our sister
For she cannot stand at all
We must enter in her struggle
So she can stand up tall
Chorus:
Sow hope, sow deep
In the heart of every woman
Every girl in need
Sow fields of dreams
Though their lives have been a desert
Scatter wide the seeds
Sow hope…
From India to Africa
And places in between
Women raped in the fields at night
For lack of a latrine
Little girls, six years old
Cut upon the rocks
Crimson stain, flowing down
If only rocks could talk
They’d be questioning our silence
And our apathetic gaze
They’d be crying out, can you hear them
shout?
Won’t somebody save?
Sow hope, sow deep
In the heart of desperate nations
Crying for relief
Sow fields of dreams
If we share what we’ve been given
Scatter wide the seeds
Bridge:
If no man is an island,
No woman stands alone.
Each one has their gift to bring
A seed that must be sown.
A seed that must be grown….
Sow hope………..
Sow hope………..
Sow hope, sow deep
In the heart of every nation
Crying for relief
Sow fields of dreams
If we share what we’ve been given,
Scatter wide the seeds,
Scatter wide the seeds.
Sow hope.
By Beryl* Pharoah for SowHope
Copyright 2007
| Thank You Beryl & friends! |
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"Where there is despair, let me sow hope," Francis of Assisi
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