What Do You Expect?
From the work FAWM 50-90-2023
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Composer: Roger D. Linder
The world is always turning, burning, churning
Facing problems so-called leaders do reject
But it was us that put them there
So what do you expect?
There’s hunger, poverty and needing, breeding, feeding
Those are things that suffer from neglect
But we are slow to see these ails
So what do you expect?
Each solution we create
Becomes a point for those that hate
Their underrepresented foes
Continue suff'ring all their blows
It's like a sentence that is hurting, flirting, so disconcerting
We try but often can't connect
A neighbor often comes complaining
Tell me, what do you expect?
Are you treated so unfairly? Barely? Rarely?
Let's take a look at what you suspect
Is is just "I beg to differ?"
Now then, what do you expect?
Moments pass as you now ponder
"Am I really in the wrong?"
It really has to make you wonder
How can this go on so long?
Make no search for hidden meaning, left/right leaning, intervening
Just treat each other with respect
We may fumble as we take these actions
But good may come, don't you expect?
Commentary
7/20/2023 - First two verses originally written during FAWM 2018, but never completed nor posted.
From the work FAWM 50-90-2023
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