There Was a Time

There was a time I believed I was free But that belief is long gone. It perished in a shooting of a public place And the men in suits sent their thoughts a prayers And then hid behind there bodyguards as they got back into their armor protected cars It passed away in the streets of the richest country in the world It’s ribs showing through its tattered tee shirt As the grocery store poisoned more of the food it so callously threw away It died in a run down house in the woods A needle in its arm Because getting help meant going to jail Because the sickness was the crime It expired when it jumped off a bridge Too poor to do anything but die While billionaires complained about having to pay taxes It relinquished its life with its hands up In the face of a man who swore to protect him Who would never be blamed for his death It fell to the ground with a rainbow painted on its cheek Because in a world so filled with hate Love is an act of treason It ceased to exist in an alleyway With the girl who couldn’t care for the life inside her So she lost the life within her And it breathed its last with a sign in its hand Because changing the world Can sometimes mean not being not being a part of it anymore