Days After Days

Between cycles of news of great floods

And forests on fire, look for the flashes

Glimmers of joy, good people helping

They lay in the roads, they lighten the load

Of heavy days after days

Days after days

The thick skin you grow, is it really a blessing?

What’s a suit of armor when your ship is sinking

To be soft is a form of defense

I don't want to forget

What those lessons meant

Homes underwater or scorched by blazes

The rich making puzzles, always evasive

Placated concern, laugh at us in private

Just barely hiding contempt for our struggle

More heavy days after days

Days after days

Your fists clenched tight

Knuckles turned to white

Turned us on each other

Nothing feels right

A lifetime of class war

When somebody shook the jar

If we uplift each other

We could go so far