'Twas am Experiment

'TURN ON YOUR LIGHTS." COURAGE UNDER FIRE

‘Twas an experiment in democracy, begun by privileged men,

That was doomed from the beginning, and they could not wait for it to end.

It rose just like a star that had arisen in the east one Christmas mourn,

And would close the church of Jesus that a new savior might be born.

‘Twas an experiment in democracy, begun by privileged men,

That was doomed from the beginning, and they could not wait for it to end.

Whilst visions of sugarplums were dancing in their childlike head, t

Their own revered men of science turned a blind eye to rapid case identification, and their elderly accumulated amongst the dead.

On the anniversary of a pandemic, he promised them an Independence Day,

Placing the nation on a war footing, but that is all that he would say.

‘Twas an experiment in democracy, begun by privileged men,

That was doomed from the beginning, and they could not wait for it to end.

And as the death toll had approached a million, irreplaceable he claimed was each soul,

As a great American rescue plan faded into past memories, ever mindful of midterm election polls.

‘Twas an experiment in democracy, begun by privileged men,

That was doomed from the beginning, and they could not wait for it to end.

Did black lives ever matter? That was certainly what the politicians did say,

Razing century old statues in a pandemic, and declaring a holiday for abolition, but not even on the right day.

‘Twas an experiment in democracy, begun by privileged men,

That was doomed from the beginning, and they could not wait for it to end.

Did black lives ever matter? Just as vulnerable as the old,

But just like their celebrated black history in public schools, about these facts, apparently, they were never told.

And now today there is a new, more terrible threat emerging in the east,

No more concerns about global pestilence and invisible enemies, with the march of armies and an unhinged beast.

Evolving intelligence replaces evolving science, when refugees flee in millions and awakened patriots return as soldiers prepared to fight tonight;

The prayers that had been powerless and nonessential in pandemic are now transformed and directed to prevent a global war, and global fright.

And the clergy who rise to recite those prayers are now even less credible than before.

For what was true before evolving science remains just as true today: only the dead have seen the end of war.

‘Twas an experiment in democracy, begun by privileged men,

That was doomed from the beginning, and they could not wait for it to end.