A day to remember countless victims
Press ganged into service by false information,
Distorted like prisms
That show only one color of light,
In a country that refuses
To recognize a 400 year blight.
Where the newsman tells you
If you're not white you're not doing it right,
Chastising people for standing up-
Aren't we all equal?
Or are we only equal
If we stand on the backs
Of the people we call evil?
"I am a United States Navy sailor
And I serve the people with honor,
courage and commitment,"
But I never had respect.
That was a lesson I had to learn on my own,
After I got my medals and they shipped me back home.
Got one tiny medal for every bomb dropped;
The jangle is deafening, the screams are nonstop,
When they rip me from my sleep.
So, yeah, I get pissed
When you follow the media like blind lil sheep.
Before you post a message, shoot me text
Or drop me a call - take a moment to reflect.
Think about why you're waving that flag-
A tri-colored standard of global domination
A symbol of the generals and presidents
That tried to exterminate the First Nations,
And abandoned the Haitians
When all they wanted
Was to become a free nation.
From the Philippines, to El Salvador
and the contras in Nicaragua—
Not one dead soldier
Has ever died protecting your freedom.
I ask you; what are you really saying 'thank you' for?
Is it for the countless victims,
Global domination,
Sweatshop produced three dollar t-shirts,
State sponsored assassinations,
Hallel Apartheid,
Sovereign nation invasions,
Women still not having voices
Every year 'given' fewer and fewer choices,
or the poor and the black
shot in the back
Left to lie dying in the streets?
What, are you saying 'Thank you' for?
Peace, Love, Respect.
Remember those that have fallen defending your freedoms:
Joe Hill, Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Martin Luther King Jr., Emma Goldman, Nat Turner, Lucy Parsons, Nicolas Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...Those of the AIM that were murdered at Wounded Knee, the Haymarket Martyrs, the families of Ludlow, CO, and every person that died because they wouldn't sit by while others were oppressed.
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Pyrrhic Victory
PoesíaThe body of this collection of work is derived from the experiences of my life and the lives of other's that have been effected directly or indirectly by the social conditions of the early twenty-first century in the US, and by extension much of the...
