(wrote this a few years ago but it's even more relevant today)

Let’s face it; we don’t agree.
I don’t like you, and you don’t like me.
I think you’re a fool and your facts are wrong.
You think I’m a ****** plotting for a Red Dawn.
I think you’re a bigot and big hypocrite.
You think I’m know-it-all who doesn’t know ****.
I think you’ve never read a book by a scholar.
You think I never worked hard for a dollar.
I think your pundits' attacks are ad hominems--
you think I use those big words so I can condescend.
I wish we could debate, but we’d have to stick to facts--
facts get lost when someone always has to grind their axe.
Emotions tend to undermine a rational debate--
it’s hard to listen and to learn when what you like to do is hate.

We are divided, they say--but it isn’t true.
The way I judge right v. wrong is no different from you.
Let’s not confuse acts from a few
with what most people think or what most people do.
Most people wouldn’t strangle a helpless man.
A psychopath did it because he knows, “I can.”
Most people wouldn’t shoot unless in harm’s way.
A cop pulls the trigger because he knows he won’t pay.

It’s about how we don’t do what we must--
we don’t hold accountable those we entrust
with a badge and a gun. They **** with impunity.
To end this we must act with unity:
Some must be indicted and go to prison,
or we’ll have more deaths for no good reason.

Today I cried, my heart is rent
For somebody I didn't know.
And for the fact that, nowadays,
They say "that's just the way things go".

A man was slain without just cause,
An officer behind the gun;
And instantly, divided we
Debate justice, where there is none.

Regardless of public record,
The man was slain for not one sin-
He died because of ignorance.
He died because of his dark skin.

The officer might go to trial,
And just as likely, he'll go free.
And we'll be told "respect the cops,
They're here for their community."

I will not adult today,
I will go out and play,
To my Pokemon and Legos I will say,
"It is for building and battles I deem this day."

Outside in the wind my hair will sway
And stress will not, my nerves, fray.

I will not adult today,
Imaginary monsters will I slay.
A pile of candy I will have on a tray,
Only blue skies I see, no clouds of grey.

For peace of mind I need not pray,
Today is mine and mine to do as I may.

What's that? The phone rings in my way,
It's my boss, he has something to say...
Off to work I go, I guess I will adult today.
Tomorrow I promise to do nothing but play.