Deliver Me, Deliver Us

I have found my voice at humanity’s eleventh hour I have found my voice because I called upon humanity’s wisdom and asked if I can help to deliver to you some units of joy and lessons of love so I ask you to hear humanity's inevitable lovesong ancient humble soothing And deliver me deliver us deliver me on the days Jefferson spoke of inalienable rights deliver us into that night of human liberation when czars were overthrown and utopia envisioned deliver me on the day Martin had his dream deliver us on the day Paris’ commune became community deliver me deliver us I say deliver me And deliver us Because without the us there is no me And without the me There is no us humanity’s struggle constant argument between Me And Us The me and the us Were at Lexington Concord Gettysburg St. Petersburg Stalingrad Omaha beach Paris, Prague, and Mexico in 1968 Tianenmen Square in 1989 And Occupy Wall Street The me and the us Are at kitchen table Deciding whose childhood is spared The me and the us are at Parliaments all over the world Deciding whose life is worthwhile The me and the us are at the UN Deciding which nations are worthwhile The me and the us History has been about the me and the us History’s first experiment in liberation Stalin and world interrupted, still insisting on the me so I ask you, humanity I implore you In the name of so many terrified faces In the name of so many torture chamber places I ask you here and now At humanity’s eleventh hour brink of armaggedon's world war to Deliver me And deliver us Deliver us from humanity's dark night let the children and future generations breathe freedom's air Deliver me Deliver us Deliver me Deliver us.