Headlines

Every headline
every day
Stabs me
in another way

All the love
vs. all the hate
why do we 
still play this game

Can't fathom
the reasoning
behind the
inequality

Darkness, darkness
pouring down,
stand alone
and we will drown

Humans build
technology
but can't work out
equality

Please stand with us
they call out,
America
has let them down

They've shared with us
stories, sorrows,
learn today, then
act tomorrow

Darkness, darkness
pouring down,
hope is when
a light is found

Please stand with us
they call out
this time, please don't
let them down

Darkness, darkness
all around,
only love drives
darkness out

love is where
the light is found.


 

Kittykatruff

TX

YWP Alumni

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