Walls

Steinmen, Rosa, MLK The preachers and poets, championing a new era Heroes far beyond their years Instilled with wisdom They cried blood and sweat and tears and pain And still they kept up the fight Brown, yellow, black, red Fight for what is right in a place that pushes backwards Move forward Let’s give atonement to honor those dead Who paved a way that seemed infeasible A feat still not accomplished, but on its way Let’s get behind our education An escape from our lives to unite Pick ourselves off of this ground Progress Confess Learn what it means to be found Let us not hate and hate another Find in each other a brother, sister, mother, friend No matter how they look or who they love The walls that once separated women and men Black and white Gay and straight Let them crumble around our feet And never resume their infernal construction