Might is Right

Look at us, Just look!!

Whatever has become of us!?

What darkness has come over this home of ours?

What made us lose our way, what made us crook?

We no longer love each other

We hate and resent, separate further

We buckle under the weight of life's ultimate lure

We stumble for control, man's deepest desire

What shall hold us true? What guide?

That Mama Lo, it's as bendable as Pete's belt?

What point of reference except what's felt?

What shall become of the law now, it's all soft?

The Court has no hold, who care's what it says!?

Its thoughts subject to the will of man

Its enforcers toothless, armless, grit-less

Yet we run to it for an image, as if we truly love justice

But it's a face, a diabolical spectacle

So the world will see we love the law

We desire to ensure its rule, to ensure all follow

We wish to dig ourselves out of this deep debacle

We thirst for a single seat, a symbol of power

And we would use this House to exclude any other

Change the laws for our convenience

Dressed as "national interest", yet a nuisance!

I practice law, but what I practice now I know not

For this thing that could be interpreted with authority

No longer is objective, but subject to man's whimsical lot

For now the one with the illusion of power decides for us the highest law

And so we who watch this disgraceful scheme

No longer comfort, but oft lamenting

That we each now make our own rules, choose our right

And if opposed with truth we put up a fight

Like the Roman Empire, right is fixed by sheer might...

How now shall our nation live?

What will make our power-mongers give?

If they will not submit to law, its scepter

Then what hold is there left on our future's threshold?

I despair, but yet I hope, that at this incomprehensible time

More than before we shall hunger for truth

And that hunger shall guide us true

Humble our hearts, open our eyesWe're blinded by self-imputed righteousness

Blinded by our greed and our childish ways

Make us see the essence of reason and true goodness

To the Truth, so settle me and you

For To make this nation truly great

Is to make our hearts truly loyal

To a rule that withstands man's rates

And binds the conscience of this nation's all

God bless Papua New Guinea!