We're trading our birthrights

What are we doing and why do we hate
We are all changing our lives and we're changing our fate
We're wandering away from the love and the grace
That gave us our being and our most sacred space

We're trading our birthrights, our soul's true reward
For something so fleeting..something so wrongly scored
We're  living for the flashy.. the fame... and the light
But can't even come close to the Heavenly delight

The hours of our days are now looking like: Rush
We have all become so busy that we're unable to touch
The quietest of moments or the soft blowing breeze
We whirl and we whirl around a life that deceives

We're trading our birthrights, our soul's true reward
For something so fleeting..something..so wrongly scored
We're living for the flashy.. the fame... and the light
But can't even come close to the Heavenly delight

Once we were all simpler and were so easy to please
We could understand the moments and the sounds of the seas
But now we are all blinded and so unable to hear
The soft sounding voices, that remind us: we're dear..

We're trading our birthrights, our soul's true reward
For something so fleeting..something ..so wrongly scored
We're  living for the flashy.. the fame... and the light
But can't even come close to the Heavenly delight

If even for an hour or for a few moments each day
We could silence our being and silently stay
In the absence of everything that isn't from God
We'd soon find that true happiness is something we've got..

We're trading our birthrights, our soul's true reward
For something so fleeting...something ..so wrongly scored
We're living for the flashy.. the fame... and the light
But can't even come close to the Heavenly delight

We've all been created and so gifted with grace
That we are not lacking at any time or place...
Yet we all keep on searching and unable to find
That the secret to our longing is waiting to unwind

We're trading our birthrights, our soul's true reward
For something so fleeting...something..so wrongly scored
We're  living for the flashy.. the fame... and the light
But can't even come close to the Heavenly delight