Illustration Reference: Photo credit: AP
We must not take this life for granted
Apathy can’t be recanted
If ever we expected kindness
Replaced it’s been with willful blindness
Chaotic acts once were forbidden
Prejudice that once was hidden
Steals the air, gets all attention
We can’t depend on good intentions
If bigotry can grow and thrive
There’s doubt this fragile world survives
We mustn’t shut our eyes to worry
And walk past rift, as if in hurry
If anything, we must awaken
Asleep at wheel, our fate’s forsaken
For righteousness to be achieved
Be seen and heard, not scorned, aggrieved
Be unafraid, raise hand with grit
Shout out “I will not stand for it!
There is no cloaking bravery
You can’t gloss over slavery
You won’t fool us with misdirection
You can’t downplay an insurrection!”
Justice is this hill we mount
To hold those guilty to account
It matters not if years it takes
For what a difference it can make
Ensuring life, for you and me
Safeguarded through Democracy!
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