The Purpose

We kneel with a purpose
Our children won’t see
If this nation refuses
Equality. 

We can’t continue to run
Without a name.
To hide our race in shame
Tell us whose to blame?

Blue, Black, and Brown
Lives matter too…
If only this stood true
We’d kneel together 
With the red, white and
Blue.

The Purpose
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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