Some need rocks
To rest bigotry upon
Look down, feel taller
Or throw at others
Others have no guts
Camp on smiles
Feed on indifference
Rivers of promise
Golden tomorrows
Our country is burning
With horror and loss
Buried in traditions hides
Pits of immorality
Walls of racism
Halls filled with assets
Sit in miles of doubt
On hills of sorrow
Growing with fear
Brother, clinging to fear
Differences and inequalities
Hidden from having
While some take all
Sister, must you hate
Wish to **** hope
Bleaching love with hate
In fear of loss
Driven to please
Hating race or creed
Feeding in lack
Altars of fanatical pride
As if there's no God
Walking shame to blame
Taking sides with captors
Tearing all apart
To make what's not
Life goes forward
Insecurity drains hearts
Feeds souls to saviors
With political lies
Trading guts for greed
Builders of distrust
Sell promises if the power
Hiding cruel minds
Open theirs to close ours
Where is forever in now
Convinced we had choices
Wanting more than not
Lost sight of beyond
Cages of greed
Built by pulpits of avarice
Filled by a Congress
Here now, gone tomorrow
Eternal is only the universe
One minute we are here
Without love, there's no power
And soon we die
Holiness lost
Revised 7/7/2019
Marta@martacweeks.com
(had one of those nights, into morning, when my mind spun words instead of dreams)