They’re wanting you pale,
a darker shade you go to jail.
This is the same old,
lighter skin owns gold.
This is America growing billionaires,
picking and planning the never share.
The Eve of Destruction
is always under construction.
If you’re a woman,
you’re less than human.
Sadly a pregnant womb
is both life and tomb.
So many guns, no humanity.
Bullet brains feed insanity.
The Eve of Destruction
is always under construction.
Money says it can never slip up
because it always banks on the give up.
Streets are bleeding voices,
angry as hell they’re losing choices.
Different faces, different races
growing community, sharing spaces.
The Eve of Destruction
is always under construction…
But this time money slipped up
because it bet it all on give up.
I really like this. Indeed, the eve of destruction is always under construction... So many good lines, inspired. And yes, the same old, the lighter skin owns gold. What inspired this change for the worse in America? Someday historians will come up with the answer....if there are historians then! I am really happy you wrote to this. Not an easy topic.
ReplyDeleteAs always, you tell it true, Susie. This time it is worse than we even imagined, heaven knows the damage being done in so many directions...........man, given the evidence, I dont see how white skin is rated so high - skin of the oppressor of people of colour all over the world. I have trouble wearing mine sometimes. Glad you tackled the topic, my friend.
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ReplyDeleteis always under construction…" Nothing can be truer than this. Very well put.
You rhymed!
ReplyDeleteBetter not "bet it all on the give-up" even if you "always banks on the give-up." interesting. Given all the ways DT is trying to make white right and DEI the enemy, I hope you are right. We may stay on the eve of destruction for a long while without getting to destruction.
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