"Love wins" and it still rings true...

Wed, 05/10/2017 - 23:47 -- hjasso

"Love wins" and it still rings true,

But the headphones go in and people watch cat videos on Youtube;

Freedom of speech where you're free to speak

If the words fall in line, otherwise they turn the other cheek;

When did we categorize our voices and start taking sides

Against our brothers and sisters; we put up walls and hide?

Different mindsets can be a beautiful thing

If we found that balance, the Liberty Bell softly rings;

But we abuse it and that thundering sound

Creates a separation when it breaks all around;

Apparently, I'm a liberal for the message I spread

There's seething heat in their eyes when this is read;

But these ideas are applied sparsely and they take your dignity;

Then, they'll tell you when they want to see some unity;

"Oh, have some sanity. Oh, the humanity!"

But they're selling placebos to increase their following; 

Open your mouth and that gust of wind will shake their brittle foundation

Relying on We the People, but we have that determination

To expose them for what they truly are and we can be

The first to see

We're liberally given our Liberty

BOOM

A kid shot in the street

By gang-related activity, they’ve spilled blood;

No massive riots and we put our hands up in defeat;

BOOM

Another kid shot in the street

By police, they’ve spilled blood;

Our mourning has fire, broken glass, and we won’t put up our hands to retreat;

Both sides are the victims and perpetrators,

We don’t want the facts; we are our own investigators;

It’s not black and white there’s so much grey area

It might as well be fog spreading like bacteria

Because we’re so blind from our own criteria;

Address the real problems where we put excuses

For fear that we are the monsters who inflict abuses

Upon our innocent and brainwash to feel entitled,

We set it to the permanent-press cycle;

Mindlessly watch it go around and around

And we feel no free will, we are bound 

To keep pressing that button while stuck in our seat;

Is this our feat?

Rinse and repeat.

 

This poem is about: 
My country

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