Burning
Do you turn against me or
want me to cry okay?
Do you hear the sadness of
MLK or RFK?
Do you know of Indianapolis 1968?
Do you understand the
spirit of MLK or RFK now bereft?
The virus that refuses to
die, over the Mississippi
lies
Take this commotion and
witness division in a nation that ties
Blood spilled in a world
where cold emotion witnesses devotion
Generations still warm
from Mississippi Burning, now devolution
It is not the concretes
that applies or the fires that rise
But the loss of the
message from true leaders in passage
Listen to those hurting
without excusing those hunting
Symbolic excuses razing
livelihoods never validating
Our America, that
announcement of love and liberty
When did we become a
nation celebrating violent inhumanity?
The dream of a great man
for a People to be “free at last”
This the song that must be
sung to get away from our past
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