When Hope Is The Last Best Thing Poem by James McLain

Only by greater people
that have every reason to succeed
can we as one people
push the pall that terrible thought
of the past behind U.S. all.
We as one people, we as one country
know what is wrong
and what is right in front of U.S.
That great motivator, that lives in each of U.S.
Those previously unaddressed issues
by those that lie or live to mouth
what should be done and do deceive U.S.
Others doubt our will
while others doubt our right to live and grow
beyond our years.
Recognized is poverty trauma caused
upon these very backs and necks some stood.
It can stand no longer
what the racists represent nothing they to give
but take from U.S.
Can it be doubted here we live to see
here we live and breath, for one and all.
Dead voiceless they would leave, dead by the road
to see their actions shown.
Can't we by any other measure known what knowledge is.
Together we must stand and learn to understand
what hatred is
then lay it at the feet of they whom mean U.S. harm.
Knowing that our children show for whom that they were raised.