Have You Forgotten

Hours upon end All we have arrived to is less then a final decision Vengeful misconduct of our nation Earth Mothers shriek as we rage along the freeways, disregarding ill conversation Yes, we must have forgotten Our lovers, friends, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers Unburdened by the fact that they lie beneath our feet Facelessly trapped in underground tunnels in mine shafts echoing urgent Oars can no longer reach them below the whitecapped pain in the Asian tropical Rings of fire, Manhattan buildings humiliated, crushed onyx embers, airplanes fly Guillotine dreams, crumbled into cobalt seas by the ways of the Levies of New Orlean’s beautiful jazz trumpets and Mardigras beads spilled on the streets To crash and burn beside the car bombs of Baghdad Tabernale wars waged inside holy lands and genocide in our backyards E plurbis unum in eagle-eyed ire has been bleached to the blind color of our flag Nadir, nail your colors to the mast we must have forgotten