Leaving the grocery store tonight I did a double-take
Seeing an aging white man in the check-out line with a Hitler moustache
Going about his business in his ordinary life unaware
The personna he presents in these times scares me.
His facial hair is not some fake fun like a Halloween mask
When today the fascists are in the streets with weapons
When the norms of democracy have been destroyed
When an endless barrage of lies drowns the truth.
This is not only about crooked Donald as if he started it
The demagogue riding in on the racism called birtherism
Spewing all those vicious slanders against people of color
Bragging with impunity about assaulting women.
This is about all the lawmakers and judges in these United States
Exposed as the mask is off the system that kills for profit
Damaging their institutions in the crisis of dead end capitalism
Looting their treasury to grab yet more obscene wealth.
Black Lives Matter!
#MeToo
Fight for $15
No Human Being Is Illegal!
All these struggles are just and righteous
Our contemporary cry out against oppression
Knowing that history is on the side of liberation
Despite our anxiety living in these dark days.
We know the future of human life on earth is in doubt
As long as the irrational climate deniers hold sway
Extracting their profits even from the disasters they make
Demanding of us that we intervene to survive.
Repression can create the will to resist that will grow
Building a mass movement to seize the day
With fearless optimism making it happen
When the youth will make the revolution.
