Given up your truth for some attention
Took a bowl of soup instead of a blessing
Need to think things through before you move
Why now, living in an emotional state
Speeding a million miles an hour with no brakes
Everyone feels the pain of this hate
Given up your freedom for a red hat
There is no logic to this new math
Need a better change, let us all kneel and pray
Why now, twin cities splitting at its seems
As we see the burning of a thousand dreams
Purification in the lakes waters is what we need
Given up your soul for racist words
After four hundred years the echo still can be heard
Need a word to warm the cold blood of the heart
Why not peace right now.
©Copyright Thomas Dooley 2020
