if i prayed for you,

sharing table scrapsthrown out by the rich,with mongrel dogs…barking and howling,and peeing on dreams,in the alleys of the soul.a blind plumberfixing the leaks,for a cola and a can of beans.an old man sipping brandywith tired ghosts,a child left alonewith discovery!i am the hand you reach for,the face you cannot understand.the tear you buriedon your angry…

facing the distant hueof the Statue Of Liberty.and touch the hallowed ground,that Jefferson and Adams dreamed,would give birth to a freedom….never before seen.and now even the shadows shiverwith the indignity of the lie.the ghosts of the freedom fighters,howl in mourning.the truth suppressedby the hands of greed,the eyes plucked from their sockets,tongues stapled to the pavement.they’re…

nuclear sites,or their troops deployed,or their airstrips…maybe, just maybe,we should try removingthe gun from their hearts…and the first stepis removing it from ours!

that old tree, cut and fallen,the sound of wings long absent.the web is empty,and even the wind doesnt reply.the garden mourns its time of passing,and the plow is left alone.sometimes we wake up homeless,hungry without needing to eat.to find that we are orphaned,by the very heart that bears our name!

realizing, the person you’remad at or hurt by is just anextension of yourself, anotherpart of you. realizing, the actthey’ve committed against youis just a human act, whetherdone on purpose, or withoutthinking… realizing, that youcommit similar acts in your dayto day existence…realizing, not forgiving, holdingon to the anger and pain, onlyhurts you yourself! it becomes aform…

take their food, take their dreams,just how much do you need?equal rights, stand and fight,you got nothing left to lose.sell your children to the lie,put your heads inside the noose!and the hands on the clockcrawl like justice spurned…tick tock, tick tock,mercy gives what mercy earns!