Through This Inhumanity Having thought more hopefully Of late I wait for fate to see If I have been right or not About such hope as I have got Not having had much before But having some I want some more Giving me reason to be Looking for something to hope for Late in the season of me Being more hopeful than I thought I ought to be formerly More open to be hopeful than I was as a younger man Consumed by that hunger for what I thought I wanted out of It but it was not it was love That wanted me hauntingly What I got out of it was in Living up to love again Not giving up coming this far I remember who we are And all I care for anymore Is seeing us being free Hoping for our humanity To surprise us in the end To rise up again and transcend More powerful than we knew But we humans know what to do Through this inhumanity Being human after all Is how to see the tower fall Steven Curtis Lance