Taking a Knee

When the anthem begins and the players

Hear the words "Oh, say can you see…"

Some have chosen not to remain

Standing; instead, they've taken a knee.

 

Taking a knee to protest injustice,

The players have faced their critics who feel

That when the national anthem is played,

People don't have the right to kneel.

 

But what about a president

Who criticizes our institutions--

Who calls the press the enemy

And scorns their vigorous contributions?

 

What about a president

Whose racist ties are loud and glaring--

Whose stance on U.S. asylum laws

Is unequivocally cold and uncaring?

 

What about a president

Who boldly refuses to take a stand

Against the industries that poison

Our water and threaten to ravage our land?

 

What about a president

Who throws our allies under the bus

And sidles up to Vladimir Putin

After what Putin has done to us?

 

What about a president--

A blowhard who has dropped the ball

In dealing with corruption, for his

Admin's the most corrupt of all?

 

What about a president

Who calls unpatriotic those

Who take a stand--or knee--against

Practices that they oppose?

 

This from a man whose actions border

The actions of someone strangely psychotic!

Trump has no right to call any

Other American unpatriotic.

 

-by Bob B (7-21-18)