Where Are We Now?

Where, pray tell, are we now?

How far have we progressed?

Have we covered our ears so we can't

Hear the cries of the dispossessed?

 

Have pages been ripped out of history books

So that the people cannot see

The struggles that many undertook

To help to set all people free?

 

A nation "indivisible,

With liberty and justice for all"

Can benefit at times from a self-

Evaluative overhaul,

 

Or maybe from a look in the mirror

To see whether the image displayed

Truly represents the picture

Of freedom meant to be conveyed.

 

Through irreconcilable differences,

Have we now become divorced

From hopeful ideals that early on

The shapers of our nation endorsed?

 

Are we sincerely looking within

Our hearts to make a "more perfect" nation,

Or are we more consumed with drawing

Attention to the standing ovation?

 

Are we shutting the door to the soul

Of America and walling out

The power and strength that forms the basis

Of what this country is all about?

 

Let us not be blindsided

By rogue forces that hope to succeed

In weakening what makes us strong,

Only to relish watching us bleed.

 

-by Bob B (6-16-18)