The ills of all the human race, <br />The woes of earth that bring disgrace <br />Would banish, if we only could, <br />Escape the fiend, Misunderstood. <br /> <br />When Eve and Adam pure and good, <br />The law divine misunderstood, <br />A downward course was then begun, <br />A race that all the earth must run. <br /> <br />The thought is sad, indeed, though true, <br />That sinners reap in season due, <br />The fruits of all they sow, and should, <br />For down in hell they're understood. <br /> <br />The infidels of giant brain, <br />Would save themselves a deal of pain, <br />By claiming truth, if such they could, <br />But they alas! misunderstood. <br /> <br />The wars that devastate the land, <br />The reason men for wrong will stand, <br />They have somewhere in seeking good, <br />The law of right misunderstood. <br /> <br />In harshness do we estimate, <br />The neighbors oft we underrate, <br />The scene would change it nature could, <br />The monster bare, Misunderstood. <br /> <br />The Negro Problem of the times, <br />Which breeds the most atrocious crimes, <br />Survives, because in crushing good, <br />The Golden rule's misunderstood. <br /> <br />The Savior's work on earth was one, <br />Of building up where sin had run, <br />He gave to all the highest good, <br />But passed through life misunderstood. <br /> <br />We long to rest when time is o'er, <br />In that beyond for evermore, <br />The habitation of the good, <br />Above the fiend, Misunderstood.<br /><br />Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/misunderstood-48/
