So little substance up high

 

Gather up the little ones in a protective shroud

Protect them against the blasphemies of this country

Where their rights wash away when the guns speak their glory.

We are not animals that should huddle from fear of the madman.

We are not meat to be wasted, blood to be poured into drains.

We are humanity

Breathing, heartbeats drumming 

Coming alive at that first moment sucking in air.

The young ones know so much pain as their rights mothers, grandmothers

Fathers, grandfathers fought so hard to gain 

Washed away with the bigotry and ignorance

Of the 1 percent begging to hold on to all the resources

By decimating the general public

In a hail of bullets and restrictions.

Restrict the woman from choosing for herself what grows within her.

Restrict access 

Restrict safety

Restrict bodies, say we are gaining momentum for the future

All the while hailing dystopian madness

That destroys us, the vulnerable.

Your laws are weak.

Your heart is cold.

We see you clinging to your riches, your power, your

Greediness.

You do nothing when the children enter heaven’s gates.

You swear that a heartbeat starts at conception but fail to protect

Heartbeats that won AB honor roll 

Or want cereal for breakfast.

You want a working class 

Enslaved to raise your babies and cook your food.

Any defiance and delineation of your ideas

Is met with a gun rally.

The power is in the people, not the masters

Clinging to the idolatry of themselves.

Your ways drag us down a spiral we declare unfit for ourselves

Our children.

Our safehouses, the schools

Are under attack

And your feeble attempts to make change

While children lay waste 

Says to me you are Nothing

Of substance,

But words of prayers

And nothing of true substance.