Sands of Time
Watch these lines of rhyme
Slip through the sands of Time.
Washington was father of our nation
Lincoln gave birth to Emancipation
When Roosevelt saw the Crash of ’29,
Hope was sown in New Deal time.
After Europe torn by nazi scourge
Eisenhower silenced world war dirge.
“50’s found Ike as President
Elvis as chief resident
As Abe had gone to Gettysburg
Jack went to unwall Berlin urge
for peace, almost seen
like Martin, with his Dream
Walk hand in hand
and together we’ll stand
on a new threshold.
But We gotta be bold.
But. . . but . . .
But what?
But Kennedy in Dallas slain
Jackie cloaked in bloody stain
Kronkite takes off his glasses
As smoke veils o’er knoll of grasses?
But hey life goes on. That’s what!
I feel it in my gut.
What’s done is done.
But who had the gun?
Fugedaboudit.
Life is good; don’t doubt it.
What’s gone is gone.
Carry on.
Love is coming.
The beat goes on.
Drum keeps drumming.
You think so?
I know. I know!
Life is good, y’all.
Let’s go to the mall.
Yeah I say unto thee
All Americans got to be Free!
I mean Martin glimpsed the Promised Land.
But taken down by trigger’d hand!
Still yet we build our American heaven.
But where were you on 911?
Don’t remind me.
Don’t you see?
We gotta let it slip through the sands time,
cuz despair ain’t worth a dime.
And I told him that!
As Amos, to Andy, said.
And we ain’t dead!
Yet.
