Red Summer

It was a summer of indifference Billionaire Nazis who preach ethnic cleansing And powerful ladies clad in iron Play tug of war With the hearts and souls of the people While governors deceive the populace and their own parties And confused men in collars and cassocks Betray their vows, principles, And even the people They are supposed to lead. It was a summer of blood Black mothers in black clothes Attend the funerals Of their Black sons Killed by Their own Black Brothers Or by Blue Klansmen With smoking guns and shining shields While urban brigades Mourn the loss of true knights Murdered by Desperate, exhausted, and enraged men Who have witnessed more than enough Of their people being oppressed By those sworn to protect them While the suburbanites and gentrifiers Look the other way Or applaud the lynchings While savages plow into school children Behead Christian babies Rape Christian women Slash the throats of priests And destroy Christian communities Even though we are supposed to be People of the Book While those who peacefully practice Islam Are being told they are unwelcome. It was the summer of chaos People parade the streets With signs Shouting Black Lives Matter Blue Lives Don't Men use toilets Next to little girls Six years olds Are being taught about The birds and the bees And the ticks and the fleas Infanticidal Mengelites Teach girls confidence and resourcefulness. We are no longer people With free wills and open hearts We are no more than pawns In a political chess tournament Of the Sick Left Against the Cold Right What is right is wrong What is wrong is right Dear Lord When will you have enough? When will the Fall of Jerusalem Finally arrive? Maybe that is the only way This madness will end. How many more chances Do we need? How much longer will you stand there While the pigs come to Spit on Your Countenance And crush Your pearls? I sigh for Your City on the Hill And long to see its gates Meanwhile, I tarry to the mountains Before I am tempted to Join the sultry, drunken orgy Of lost souls who hang the decent And silence the morally outspoken Whilst chanting Eat, drink, and indulge For you only live once