Published in Street Roots August 11 – 17, 2017
Upholder By Aileen McPherson
With life full of strife how do morals not
become trite, when death is a vestment
worn daily by a mind born of servitude, where
latitude like gratitude is excised by a being
who prided self as truthful despising lies, all
while forcing deception on those he chose
to have connection.
While lies unfolded a mind grew colder as body
continued to be battered, four more lives
would be shattered, contradicting laws that matter
for greed deplorable against familial craft, how
does one last before mind burned, mortified,
crashed.
Put honesty before lies, other before thine, morality
is a perspective be objective, value truth,
elevate perpetuate solidarity for harmony’s
sake, we are great despite past paths that
we have been made to undertake.
Upholders are we, fighting for rights that
should be formed not out of greed but through
truest equality, resist your past to make
a sustainable future that will last, lest
not we forget our deplorable past.
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