Civil Rights poem

By Wilson Ndegwa

1.       Sometimes I sit and wonder

2.       How civil rights have changed

3.       From race to age to gender

4.       And rights that have no sense

5.       But that makes us people you see

6.       Even if you don’t like them

7.       And wish they have a right

8.       That you like but won’t change

9.       Don’t worry about it

10.   For civil rights are important

11.   And sometimes they are not

12.   What a right I want

13.   I don’t know

14.   But I remember a time when we didn’t have to worry about or race

15.   You know I’m talking about Donald Trump

16.   But let’s move on

17.   To my opinion on some civil rights

18.   That way I have more to write about

19.   Some rights I can live with like African American rights of 1968

20.   But some rights a lot of people aren’t 100% happy about.

21.   Like gay rights. I fine with it because it’s none of my business

22.   That doesn’t mean it doesn’t bother me, It really does

23.   There are rights we all care about

24.   Like the civil rights act of 1957

25.   Which gave us all rights to vote

26.   US citizens only actually

27.   And the civil rights act of 1964

28.   Which outlawed discrimination against race

29.   So that’s my poem

30.   Which ends in this line