Rebirth

Always and never the old saying goes The wind in my hair and the sand twixt my toes As I walk through the valley of fear and regret I tell myself things are not so far gone yet And despite facing daily the riddle of why And gravely observing the days that go by I have decided not to give in to my doubt Or the sullen resentment that wears us all out For many of my generation have thought That hope is a luxury we haven’t got Every day in the news, down the street, down the block There is suffering, pain, and the march of the clock Toward the next greatest tragedy we’ve ever seen Our genius is waning, our cunning is mean Ingenuity, cleverness, used for destruction Our own selfish nature our biggest obstruction It prevents us from doing what needs to be done The one tool for affecting change now is a gun We’ve forgotten the principles on which we were founded And left behind all the things that kept us so grounded Our fame and our victories went to our head And now so many innocent people are dead We ignore our allies and wage war over seas Ignoring all advice, counsel and pleas We broke the economy, turned friends into foes Long and tragic is the list of our collective woes But I must say, as I have said before That now is no time to flee out the door We must hold together, we must remain strong Too long we allowed ourselves to be led wrong This generation is given the directive To come up with solutions that will be effective At healing our culture and ending the pain So some semblance of our great legacy can remain We were once truly the greatest nation on earth And now is our chance for glorious rebirth