My mind is moving fast with recollections of the past.
Visions of the future somehow inform the angry present now.
A choice is being laid before us with outcomes vividly clear.
It’s the path we take with so much at stake and chaos oh so near.
A loss of faith in honor and truth, virtues from a dying day.
Tribal hatreds, once buried deep, point the way to slow decay.
If we could only just stop for a few moments and listen
To our better angels, our bitter hearts, and to each other.
A misguided faith redirected, brother to brother.
Reflect back from whence we have come with so much labor and love.
For life and liberty we strive, a solemn happiness implied.
To lose it now at such a cost, a righteous justice denied.
I call on you and all you hold dear, make the right choice
And we walk together, once again, on a path without fear.