America Still Sings of Freedom

In the midst of nuclear insanity

In the midst of natural calamities

In the midst of hatred and harm crisscrossing the land

In the midst of hostility riding in cars emasculating our civil liberties

In the midst of blood spattered into the streets…

In the midst of people crying…people dying

America Still Sings of Freedom

In the midst of black lives Matter

In the midst of limitations set on Muslims’ immigration

In the midst of white supremacy poisoning the tender tendrils of democracy

In the midst of Native Americans wanting to save the earth from greed and destruction

In the midst of dreamers’ dreams vanishing in the wind

In the midst of chaos and confusion

America Still Sings of Freedom

In the midst of immigrant children being wrenched from their parents’ grasp

In the midst of the vanishing affordable health care act

In the midst of the oppressed screaming for justice from the callous and the cold

In the midst of the stranglehold of the school to prison pipeline

In the midst of the vines of violence choking aspirations

In the midst of mass incarceration

America Still Sings of Freedom

In the midst of earth’s disintegrating atmosphere

In the midst of conflicting attitudes towards a solution to pollution

In the midst of profits leading to the desecration of our planet

In the midst of socio-economic terrorism

In the midst of religious fanaticism

In the midst of man’s obsession with power

America Still Sings of Freedom

In the midst of the sunrise greeting a new day in magnificence

In the midst of the stars twinkling eminence throughout time

In the midst of intergalactic connections singing in eternity

In the midst of the courageous voices of the many standing together in unity

In the midst of joy infusing hearts of stone

In the midst of peace in search of a home

America Still Sings of Freedom