Sunday, June 28, 2015

S.C.

How did we get to the state
where love and reason lose to hate?
A Dixie boy gets smiling faces
and loathes because they’re not his race’s.

He pledged allegiance to the flag
of the United States of White Supremacy.
Dad got him a Glock for his birthday
because what else to do for a racist son
of Strom Thurmond’s state.

Congregants showed him love —
they saw a visitor and welcomed him
as a brother; he saw witless prey,
victims, sacrifices to his hateful god —
his idol the Statue of Bigotry.

For shame, Dixie. Look at what heritage hath wrought —
a shot, then many more, and many dead.

How did we get to this place
where humanity’s trampled by race?
What’s the route to peaceful end
and a country’s lasting mend?