The 60's
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It was a cultural revolution, while a world jumped to conclusions
Of mini-skirts, and go-go boots, and psychedelic tensions
The flower child, would smile and sprout communal peaceful versions
about a war, and called it wrong, and marched to have it end.
Mary, Peter, Paul, would sing,... Pete Seeger wrote his songs
While somewhere soldiers fought the throng of distant Viet Cong
The wonder years, had rendered us to march in protest parades
Invading rights, the south would fight against the Ku Klux Klan
Rosa Parks would take a seat and fight for rights of men
her bravery would light the world. .. and sparked a light within
The Beatles sang of "Yesterday", and everything between
"Imagine" if you can at all,.......what peace could ever bring
The evening brewed the Cronkite news, and we believed in him
On distant shores the scores of dead, the dreaded war ensued
A bullet broke the heart of man...
and we would watch a child salute
the father that he loved and knew
struck down beneath,
a Texas sky one cloudy afternoon ...
His uncle too, ...then, Dr. King.....succumbed to hate, such fate would come, as well
The dates we keep with lock and key, and still,....our throats will swell
Yet through the clouds, into the sky....one step for all mankind
Would light the world, again with hope.....and take us to the moon
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For Kelly's Contest: Decades
3/4/15
Copyright © Carrie Richards | Year Posted 2015
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