Cinder and Ash
There is a black fire that reigns upon this land
It burns beyond the red and yellow flames
Dead and done to skies of cinder and ash
To choke voices in the dread of darkest hours
We struggle to empower our meaning
While the giving light of hope
Rides on the slope of choice in its bond to truth
And now lays reposed to guide
In the blighted dead of smoke and lies
A living fallacy this madness
Our demise battles with our sullen cries
As our soul's sadness clings
To the countless sacrifice
For equality in the decades of man
With great boundless fading grief
This disempowering shore of insanity
Opens its door with no relief from the exercise of hate
To suffocate liberty
To implore our beliefs with crushing weight
To have us flounder at the shores of possibility
Taking our final breath, our truth and freedom to restore
August 14, 2020
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