Darkness falls upon angel choir

Heaven mourns the funeral pyre.

Senseless death, skins evening shade

With their lives by hatred paid.

No justification nor reason exists

For racism and prejudice to persist.

The sixties clearly were not the end

For Black Lives Matter we must defend.

How sad it is hate thrives this day

Hunting others like birds of prey.

The south has risen, of this I fear

Though reason why is not so clear.

As house of God nor fortress strong

Could save their lives from evil long.

Nay, I did not know them, but it matters not

They did not deserve this deadly plot.

I mourn this day for humanities loss

As beautiful lives have paid the cost

Again and again hate rears its head

And every time folks wind up dead

Ask this question, if you think you can

Is this really the promised land?

For some perhaps, but others no

This is no sitcom or drama show.

These lives are real they’re flesh and blood

They need not perish in a godless flood.

Perhaps if we stand against hatreds rule

We’ll cast them down into the fiery pool.

And raise this nation into Heaven’s light

By doing what we know is truly right.

~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~