I have not heard you for awhile

amidst the thunder and the rage

I have not heard your tortured heart

as it rattled in its cage

 

They told me you’re a racist

and I’m a bigot too

They said there is no unity

for the likes of me and you

 

They told me that your children

were not the same as mine

They told me that your children

will always cut in line

 

But today I saw our children

laughing side by side on God’s hot sand

Dancing on the pain they felt

As they hopped toward cooler land

 

At the sea’s salty shoreline

they collapsed, eye to laughing eye

Listen

There is kindness in that laughter

for the likes of you and I

 

No one told them this was impossible

That they were bound to a profile cage

No one told them they were angry

And had to rattle this beach with rage

 

I looked at you

you looked at me

our phones screaming in our hands

Facebook,CNN, Fox News and Hannity

All giving us commands

 

You are this

and I am that

What’s the truth in all we’re missing?

Let’s fall down

embrace our children’s laughter

and Listen

Listen