It's All Meaningless (Book of Ecclesiastes)

Lord, I need you to intercede because we're planting seeds
for the next generation of women to reap a harvest greed.

Young women get fake tans and wear large shades-
a masquerade, botox faces on parade,
while underneath their minds begin to fade,
but who am I to judge, I must confess,
I dress in the best and buy things in excess,
and obsess over movie stars and their fast,
expensive, foreign cars.

I look at celebrity gossip in the checkout aisle
and all the while, there are thousands
of innocent people dying from genocide,
but nationwide women continue to be dissatisfied,
their bodies are preoccupied with looking like the hottest celebrity,
or should I say America's top priority. And as we obsess over
whose dating whom, Africans are dying of HIV and road-side bombs
create amputees.

People use the excuse that they can't relate to high birth rates
and apartheid. We don't know how to donate
and educate because we continue to watch TV
and read magazines until our minds disintegrate.

And it doesn't end there, no one has a dollar to spare
because we spend all our money on the things that we wear,
but your Word says, As goods increase,
so do those who consume, until we become immune
to the debt we owe to the department store,
but we keep collecting more
just to keep up with the latest trend,
but it doesn't matter how much you spend,
it's all a chasing after the wind.

We must break this routine
because the Bible clearly states in Ecclesiastes 5:15,
"Naked a man comes from his mother's womb
and naked will he leave,"
so don't be deceived, stop collecting stuff,
whoever loves money never has money enough.

So here's the only thing that makes sense,
fear God and keep his commandments.
So I ask you Lord, to please
change our hearts with mine being the first,
for it is I who am the worst of these.