May Freedom Prevail!

A dark cloud passes over the land

Obscuring the light of rationality.

Winds of uncertainty beat against

The threatened structures of democracy's vitality.

 

Never before has a politician

Vowed to deport from American soil

Eleven million people. Tell me:

How does that not make your blood boil?

 

To carry out a mass deportation--

To tear millions of families apart--

Would violate the rights of us all

And be neither compassionate nor smart.

 

Never before has a politician

Promoted religious profiling here,

In a country where we have the right to believe

Or NOT--a freedom that we hold dear.

 

Never before has a politician

Suggested that America should harm

The families of suspected terrorists.

Good gracious! Sound the alarm!

 

If democracies undermine themselves

By taking away people’s rights it seems

That there's a very thin line between

Such democracies and fascist regimes.

 

May the light of reason pass through

The dark clouds obscuring the sun!

May reason stifle the threats of tyranny

So we can proclaim that freedom has won!

 

(5-7-16)