"I Think"
"I Think..."
I think creativity should be
Something we’re not afraid of
I think we should hide from
The thing under the bed
And run from the
Noise out the window
I think we should be humans
Because it’s human nature to do so
or so I think
for I don’t know
all I know
is we’re on the brink
of death and destruction
and we fail to think
of moral corruption
we just shoot our guns
and wave our flags
and gag as we proudly sink
for fear is all we show
I think, but I don’t know.
I think we should abolish the constitution
For it has mocked us for long enough
I think we should stop lapping up the gospel
When the diamond is lost in the rough
Or at least because those who wrote it
Considered half the faces I see to be
Three-fifths of a human
And the other half zero.
A tragedy.
Behold America: The World’s Greatest Show
Oh how I think, but I don’t know.
I remember reading
for reading’s sake
the books took our culture
and burned it at the stake
we were born in
the sanctification
we grew up in
the crucifiction
now we stand at the vanguard in
the vilification of
a life that puts a price
on Democracy:
Free-life
Free-spirit
Free-mind
Free-soul
Freedom.
In a democracy
is freedom really free
or does it drip and bleed
with lives long lost:
blood donors to the land owner
Holocaust
rise now the children
who reap what our father’s sow
tear up the pages
for I think, but I don’t know.
I think we should close our mouths
And let our minds do the talking
I think that for once we should stand still
And let our souls do the walking
Because the only way to dig past
This superficial crust is with our hands--
dirty, broken, unplanned
unafraid of boom or bust
unshaken by hit after hit
untaken by the politically unjust
unfettered by the masses’ bullshit
once gone and forever returned
lives formed by the poet’s spit
riots incited, cities burned
races united, justice deserved
walls torn down, music in the halls sound
all in the name of just one word:
Our Word
Our Culture, Our Mind, Our Youth
dripping from the fountain, cut uncouth
thirsty to climb the mountain of need;
You heed?
We are hungry to plant the seed
and watch it grow
This I think, but I do not know.