EXISTING IN SILENCE

Existing In Silence

Where are the Voices?
Where have they gone?
Were they murdered by apathy?
are were they silenced by unconcern?

I question because I am here
and I speak loudly but go unheard
and I wonder if this is the reason
those before me gave up and went home

How did we go from powerful and mighty
to silent and degraded and negated?
How do we sleep at night knowing that we
are the perpetrators of our current decline?

How do you stand for nothing
when your children pay the ultimate price?
How do you find room to complain
when you've done nothing to make things right?

So many died so that we could be free
but we've done nothing but dishonor the memory
of the sacrifices our forefathers made for us
the children raised fatherless for the greater good

He marched so that we could have choices
but I am sure he never imagined
that we would choose to do nothing at all
and yet that is the legacy his sacrifice has borne

We have taught our children nothing
and we continue to feed them false ideas
of what should be and could be
giving them limits and barriers
instead of unleashing their untapped potential
and assisting them in elevating a people
through their rightful pursuit of the american dream

There is no secret society hating on us
and no underground movement to stifle us
the true enemy knocking at our backdoor
and negating our reality and possibilities
is us ... the ones who chose to give up and give in

So I ask you, on the eve of another celebration
another free day to dishonor the memory
of those who thought we were fighting for
and dying for ... and speaking for

Where are the Voices?
Where have they gone?
Were they murdered by apathy?
are were they silenced by unconcern?

Fire
01.08.06