WHY PUT HIM DOWN
He wants what you want, their faces are brown
He can’t understand you
Why put him down
He started his life at the tender age of maturity
You started in your youth
Why put him down
He fought the war of segregation
In the time of Martin demonstration
Why put him down
He came from the back to the front
From humility to dignity, yet you laugh at him
Why put him down
He talks to you of love, unity, and higher learning
You tell him what you know nothing about crosses burning
Why put him down
He enters the world of brotherhood
He found the lost souls of strife
Why put him down
He’s at the bottom of the totem pole you are at the top
Why put him down
For surely if he falls you fall too
written 1999
