Role Swapping/Universal Love

We give beyond measure, yet our hearts have not ruptured
Unlike the way our bodies are structured

Recipients as we were formed in the womb
Transformed in a sense, once we're paired with a groom

How is it the part seems to act as the whole
Giving was just a portion of our role

Women sacrifice as if it were the only purpose of life
Forgetting it is only PART of our reason for being..

Men must love their wives
As Christ himself loved the church (Tall order)

Wives advised to submit to their husbands
As unto the LORD (Even harder)

How is it our roles get so twisted
As if The Book had never existed

Women in marriage or not, love harder
While men largely take it and run much farther

Seems awfully convenient, this masculine gender
With exception for some gentle souls, no agenda

Seems grossly imbalanced, lopsided proportions
Of men who are true versus those with distortions

Made of epidermis, blood, bone, and tissue
Believe this, we are much more than stamen and pistils

A family of beings created in kind
The intended purpose is for ALL to find

Nurturing, friendship, love, and support
Growth, opportunities to learn what was taught

Self-serving attitudes are hurting society
Dwindling down to the basest variety

We ALL need to love, but there is no balance
Those that do, do it most of all
While others don't bother to do it at all

Humanity moans, but there seems no changing
Empathy wanes, the planet needs rearranging

Time for our roles to be reset
If we act quickly, there is hope for us yet

Stop role swapping, let us all find our place
Make the earth smile and dishonor disgrace

Treat everyone as you would like to be treated
If you act out-of-line our goal is defeated

Remember we are all in some way connected
It happens to us all, if one is rejected

Let those arms spread out wide
You can care greater than you show

Open up your heart where it counts
You can help far much more than you know

Hate is wasteful, but love preserves..

Women are not the only givers out there
So let it be heard

Time is short, let us get it right, on schedule
This world is due for a makeover, God's tossing out the residue

Every person must examine him/herself
Let the cleansing begin

Let the healing break forth
So in the end we ALL win