As tears go by......

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Smiling faces I can see
But not for me
I sit and watch
As tears go by

How did we get here... where are we going...    innocence at play..   how will they learn hatrid...  Is there one among that one day will feel he/she has the right to take another's life?

Bulletproof backpacks..   Armed guards in schools..   Trepidation in going to church.. a concert.. a movie.. WalMart?  Are we fucked up or what?  Why? How did we get here?

My riches can't buy everything
I want to hear the children sing
All I hear is the sound
Of rain falling on the ground
I sit and watch
As tears go by

15,000 years ago.. The ancestors of Native Americans arrived here from Asia via the land mass Beringia....  Who/when/where/why did this exclusion -prejudice - hatrid - better than thou come from?  Why?

It is the evening of the day
I sit and watch the children play
Doin things I used to do
They think are new
I sit and watch
As tears go by 

The color wheel is an amazing, wonderful thing, to most.  Why is there hatrid, by some, for some colors?  What goes thru the brain of one who thinks "my color is better than your color?"  I really think, if I were black, Hispanic, or maybe a believer of a non mainstream religion - I'd be dead from fighting back.  I know that's not MLK's way but he's gone.  Who/how can we fix?  And maybe an even better question, why can't we fix?

I cry watching the children play for I know odds are one day they too will witness atrocities.  Maybe they will even be eliminated, their own life cut short by atrocity. Maybe one will learn hatrid and participate in atrocity.

We must, somehow, rid our Country, our World - of hatrid.

It's obviously, not enough, to be kind.  Compassionate.  Feed.  Clothe.  Help.  Role model.  Peacefully coexist.  God bless those that do though - and please don't change.

As tears go by.......

Love........ why not?