Build A Bigger Table

I wanna live with my head up

Not buried in the ground.

I wanna give up on toeing these lines

I've been sold.

I want to believe in people

Like when I was a child.

Not through some Dogmatic lens

but a present where the past is reconciled

I want to get to know that kid

Who I once was

I want to forgive him for being scared

and for growing up

Sometimes…

I want someone to pay

For all of his pain

The responsible

held accountable In more than

the smallest of ways

I don't wanna laugh out loud.

And think that young man is dumb

When he says that he's proud

To be an American

I want to believe in the Dream

But not like him and his friends

There's just a few years between proud boys

And racist old men.

I need to have something more of where i'm from to be proud

Then just outdated ideas sitting on stolen ground.

I'd love to feel my chest swell with pride

And not be rolling my eyes

I want someone to pay

For all of this pain

The responsible

Held accountable

In more than the smallest of ways

I want to find some way to help

Be a solution for something real

Build a bigger table

And leave it better than I found it here

I want to look at my neighbor

And know that they'll be alright.

And when the hard times come

Remember we're both in the same fight.

I want to love the whole person

That they've dared to become

I wanna lead with compassion and grace

Towards everyone

I want to come back home to visit my folks

And not hear of another suicide or overdose.

I want the Sacklers to pay for what they did

I want my friends that they killed back from the dead

I just want so bad to hug them again.

I want power out of the hands of these cowards.

I want to defund the goddamn cops.

I want to quit arguing with these fascists,

about the crime that they don't stop.

I want someone to pay

For all of this pain

The responsible

Held accountable

In more than the smallest fucking ways

I want to find someway to help

Be a solution for something real

Build a bigger table

And leave it better than I found it here