United We Fall

It's the warmth of a heart that turns so cold
It's the smiles on the faces that now look old
It's the hatred in the eyes that once held care
It's the fading of the morals and the justice in the air.

For when a color holds such hatred, the battle has just started.
When the pigment that is seen is judged by those cold hearted.
Forget fairness and respect,
This world has crumbled to a mess.

Where the blind can see, and the deaf can hear
But the gifted are less gifted than they seem to appear.

When the news is not new; rather, tales of the past
When fear creeps in claiming that hope has gone at last
Take a stand, raise your voice; make it clear above the noise.
Changing girls into women, and the men from the boys.

"Isolated cases" in times of isolation
The lies quickly spread causing massive trepidation
No fear should be felt for a thing one cannot help.

Distinguish one from another
Criminal from brother.
I do not doubt that we are able
Worlds colliding to become stable.

When friend neglects friend in efforts to not amend
When sister forgets brother when in "brother" she hears "other"
When society's forgotten that which it has built,
The petals of our Earth weep, wither, and wilt.

To shut out in fear of difference is to deny all we are
For a people who know struggle have already come so far.
Though far beyond the privilege that many only see,
Is a band just held together by a meek and quiet plea:

Do not shun, do not ostracize
The people in our world need to hear our cries.
The cries of a nation put down, shut out
Whose worries and whose fears are looked at with such doubt.

So much more than what is other is why we must unite
To see beyond the curtain the cold hearted won't call fright.
Do not lose sight of the battles we have fought
For forgetting is regretting, and all we had is lost.