Begin Again

 

When color is more important 

Than the hand that holds the brush

When it’s hard to find the solitude 

While always in a rush

When the wars you have been fighting in

Have made their way back to your door

When your enemies have taken over

All the housing for the poor

When the poison is injected 

By those you thought would save your lives

When you dwell in the smart cities 

But don’t have anything to drive

When your mind is overtaken 

By hidden dangers in the air

When the religion you’ve been serving

Has now led you to despair

When your children are abducted

By the captors that you pay

When you can’t tell complicit actors

Until the subject has its say

When they come and take your livestock 

No chicken eggs or milk from cows

As they’re feeding you with insects

Roles could change a year from now

When the road that you were making

Intersects with a dead end

All those wrong turns you have taken

Have led back to here again

When a love that’s been forsaken

Is renewed through pain of sin

There is no one to pass judgement 

It simply says, “Begin Again”