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
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