Friday, June 05, 2020

Good People on Both Sides

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR:  GEORGE FLOYD SERIES


Good People

Some words never fade
They stick in your mind
Where you don’t want to look
And wait for a reckoning
A moment of clarity
When finally as if by magic
It all makes sense

Good people on both sides
Neo Nazis and civil rights protesters
Swastikas against peace symbols
Advocacy against insults
Reason against threats
Resistance against aggression

A woman crushed for taking a stand
Good people on both sides
A man killed for being black
Good people and bad apples

As the nation explodes in rage
Our president yields to silence
Except to encourage violence
Nothing against the racist extreme
Nothing against the white supreme
Blame it on antifa: the anti-fascists
Blame it on the leftist scourge
Get tough against the mob

Good people on both sides
Nothing about the man who died
Nothing to heal the nation’s divide
Nothing but MAGA pride

Good people on our side
The others are all terrorists
You know what we do with terrorists
Lock em up!
Crush em like cockroaches!
Stuff em in a cage!
Teach em a lesson they’ll take
To the grave!

Some words never fade
Some folks never change
Some are elected president
To remind us of our shame

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