We Must Fight For Our Own

We must love our own First We must fight for our own First We must love and fight for the victims Because they’re part of our teams We simply cannot let them suffer Anymore We must respect their pride and candor Evermore Under the bridge where they seek sanity Freedom, decency, hope and better opportunities Over the dangerous waves where they seek liberty Men, women and children face death and controversies All God’s children merit living in peace All God’s children are created equal It is the same red blood seeking justice We all have one body, one heart and one soul We must stand for the rights of everybody Regardless of the color that we all see The Sea is tired of drowning so many The sharks are sick of devouring so many The bombs no longer want to kill so many The bullets are tired of piercing so many And the flowers no longer want to be part Of so many funerals And it’s shameful that so many heads have no heart Oh! Brave soldiers and poor generals We must not love our own Last We must not fight for our own Last. P.S. Peace and Love. Copyright © February 2023, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.