Words spoken long ago
Yet are reiterated to this day
words proclaimed long ago
yet still are being enacted today

we pray for equality
white or colored skin
we fight for liberty
with equality we will win

Emancipation Proclamation
Civil Rights of 1964
Womens Suffrage at the turn of the century
And so much more.

We are Americans.
Born with natural unalienable rights
life
liberty
pursuit of happiness

Yet to pursue happiness we have to still fight for equality
Yet for liberty we still have to grant people the respect as citizens
Yet for life, people still take it away

Specifically our 16th Dearest President
A man who we all know well
He wore a tall top black hat
and lived through our country's Hell

He fought for a purpose larger than life
A purpose larger than he
a purpose of freedom for those
who had been shunned to slavery

A colorblind constitution
a colorblind population
kept these poor people
stuck in desolation

Abraham Lincoln knew his place
how he knew it well
freedom was the only option
the only escape from this Hell

A war was fought
bloodiest this country has had
wounds gnashed in bodies
many children lost a dad

Yankee and Confederates
black and whites alike
fought side by side
fighting for their "right"

And so it goes
as the story isn't done
war hadn't killed the country
work was to be done

For a lost 100 years
the country had ignored
the slaves outcry of freedom
they were segretated and stored

Stored as maids, stored as second class
But now today
They are the the fuel of this nation
they are not left astray

Equality is a proclamation
Equality should be granted
Equality should be guaranteed

Equality.