I started writing this in March 2016, even before the election of doom. It is meant to be a song. I just need someone to come up with a better melody/arrangement than the one in my head.
The flag’s at half mast again,
who is it for?
I can’t even keep track of this shit anymore
Too many tragedies
Too many refugees
How did we get here?
Where did we go wrong
Can we blame it on politics
or the economy
or has it just been this way all along?
Is it human nature
to distrust each other
to form up our tribes and get ready to fight?
What about those of us
who choose a peaceful path,
how do we know if we’re doing it right?
Children of immigrants
torn from their families
still we all sleep as if everything’s fine.
If we are complicit
in caging the innocent
how do we teach our own kids to be kind?
I don’t have the answers
but asking the questions
thinking it through that’s when I feel alive.
Don’t shut it out
when you let in the doubt
that’s when clarity just might arrive.
How many tears will we
shed for our planet
how many years do we really have left?
to live and to love as if
there’s no tomorrow
might be the one thing that we’ll never regret