Can You See

Ana Reyes

“What so proudly we held at the twilights last gleaming”

The love and affection is gone,

Violence and hatred are screaming.

Only good souls keep believing 

on the potential of a bright future.

Although the damage has been done

I refuse hatred to have won,

So I close up the wounds with sutures.

Raging with segregation 

Putting up walls of separation

Races of desolation

Barely any admiration

Outsiders’ incarceration

This is an abomination

Really with no explanation

We crave a moral levitation

to end it all.

History repeats

And all we do is repent.

Allow change to defeat

What it once meant:

Raising unemployment

Economic disappointment

troops’ redeployment 

And let our country ravish with enjoyment 

At our new beginnings.

A country contaminated with love; 

Easier to spread than to contain, 

Easier to feel than to hate, 

Easier for love to be sate,

Easier to lend a hand than in fists engage,

Easier to ascend in forgiveness than to drown in rage,

Easier to be in a united state than falsely stating to be united.