(1st week of September 2020)

Burdens

One undeserving generation
given the sacrifices of the one before
now mocks without understanding
all the faults with an unbalanced score

Builders, dreamers, kind and brave
Forgotten for the darkest days
Focused on the evil alone
find no good and cannot know

There was peace and hope indeed
Many lived without such greed
So many unnamed true and bold
now forgotten by the opinions you hold

Not every heart was the same
Yes some were dark and cold
But taking up their method too
only turns your own heart old

Youth forsaken is a shame
Lost under these burdens now
Cast off hatred in love today
and see what love can allow

For all can rise in its grace
All can stand in union there
If in truth we reach out
and together these burdens we bear