PLEA FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL AMERICANS

"Do you hear it?" I cry out.
Nothing.  So again I shout,
"Can't you hear the deadened nothingness?
Can't you hear the moaning sad distress?"
It shouts at us like angelic blasts of doom
In woeful gloom.
America is dying.

Black White, Yellow, Brown and Red,
Born with the right to get ahead.
Politicians with demonic verve,
Forgetting those whom they should gladly serve.
Depriving us of our God-given right
To live in light.
America is crying.

The rich ask, "What's this all about?
Look at the wealth we proudly tout.
We are makers, not those who take,
We leave the lazy in our wake."
And those left behind strive in vain to get ahead,
For daily bread.
America is sighing. 

Lady Liberty, old friend,
When will all this darkness end?
With saddened hope to you we cry and plead,
Help us as our hearts so sorely bleed.
With your harbor's light shine out new clarity,
New Charity.
America is dying.