Forty Acres and a Mule

Tears

41 Tears Do you flow for the victim Do you flow for the mighty Have you been fooled Nay, how sincere are you, and they for whom you descend in counsel? Do you drop on breasts Naked, as a newborn Or on chests putrid and heartless? Tears, for whom do you ask us to shed you? Embankments do we build against this river’s surge to cleanse the debris on the shores? Salvation Highway The cue was long – very long Parents dragged unwilling offspring For a spot on Sci-Tech Street They gestured and probed, the one Weary, they pleaded, the others As did the Rev’rend, if only for an iota of a line Sorry, Father, not in these times Our religion, our salvation – nay, our damnation We’ll seek, as we stick to Sci-Tech Street Note: Sci-Tech – Science and Technology ...