After the Tears
The unexpected shock.
The eyes strain to see life.
The heart leaps into the throat.
After the tears…
An old photo of a happy day.
The hand of a baby daughter in yours.
Eyes that look up and see you for what you are.
After the tears…
Death will kill all you love.
Death makes you run away with all that you love.
Death haunts your every step towards freedom's precious light.
After the tears…
With the flood all around.
With your baby holding tight to daddy's strength.
With all you have, it wasn't enough.
After the tears…
No one heard.
No one saw.
No one cared.
After the tears…
After the tears come the rolling thunder of justice.
A people should not tolerate the conditions of physical and a type of mental enslavement.
In our nation, minds and hearts are captured by an ideology that allows mothers, fathers, and their children to die in dark waters at a nation's doorstep; it is not a nation dedicated to life.
It is not a community.
It is a society that has lost its purpose.
A sickness that has been allowed to fester way beyond its expiration date.
This nation we live in has always understood what the right thing to do is.
Even other nations have been able to read our credo and have understood that Liberty, with her torch held high, is there to welcome the weak, the fearful, those without hope, the tired, the sick, the forgotten.
The credo to love the stranger.
This nation we live in has forgotten its credo.
This nation has forsaken its honor.
This nation has abandoned human decency and compassion in favor of a short-lived political power.
Our nation's mind is set against itself.
Through the roar of political lions, through the ripping apart of safety in neighborhoods, through callous disregard, lives are lost because it serves the ideal of divine retribution.
They deserve what they get because they are not like me.
Because they are not like me…
Not like me…
That's right.
That is not like us.
That is not the American ideal.
After the tears…
You don't have to be an empath to know that a baby girl clinging to her daddy's back who drowns with him as he sought freedom is wrong.
It's evil.
It's an evil perpetrated by men and women in power in our nation.
We allowed them to have power at our discretion.
Not some mythical monster.
Not some alien from another planet.
Men and women, humans who cannot see the tears of the individual, only the inside of their closed hearts.
It stops.
It stops now.
It stops today.
We know what the correct answer is.
We've all learned it once upon a time in America.
The idea of Love came into the world and immediately set heart against heart.
Those who follow love cannot also support blind human hate.
True Love will separate a man from a woman.
True Love will divide the parent from the child.
True Love will demand that a nation do the right thing every time.
Every time!
Love asks more of us each and every day till the day we pass from the Earth.
A nation that practices love doesn't allow babies crying for a crust of bread to die.
Stones of hate are not passed out to feed the hungry in a nation that proclaims it believes in the Golden Rule.
Each and every death of anyone in our nation's custody and those seeking refuge is further evidence of the cancer on America's soul.
I'll keep saying it, I'll keep asking it, I'll keep demanding it, I'll keep standing.
I'll never be silent…
After the tears will come the rolling thunder of justice.
Either you get yourself straight, or the world will get busy on your ass.
After the tears…
Peace
Daniel J Frey aka Toby