i have always wondered what those days were like,
The days when change was happening,
When the layers of hate was being pulled back , being pushed and pulled back, in all its inalienable ugliness
Like a boil of puss
To bleed and drain the toxicity out of us
To see those flames of us and them melt into the ashes of old wars
To be taught in school and learned by future generations
Like how women could not vote and blacks could not eat and drink together
Nor attend the same schools
Yes, I had always wondered until it all came back
Because hate had never left its ugly face from our world
Ferguson came up onto surface within days of celebrating Selma’s 50th Anniversary!
I wonder no more
it has walked through our door!
We are watching a call to arms to snatch hate from our hearts and minds
So we can all see that Glory sung about in the days to come
While we march forward into a better kingdom