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Remember
Remember the War on Terror
Remember the War on Islam
Remember the War on Civil Rights
It must have been a Civil War
Remember
Remember the War on Drugs
Remember the fallen officers
Remember the fallen street traffickers
Remember the Street Bosses living free
And fat on the profits from product
Prohibited till prices skyrocketed
While GMK and Pfizer licked their lips
Remember the eleventh of November
Or the fifth
Remember the fifth when you write this
And plead it when they try to indict this
Remember who fell for your innocence
Remember who fell for your innocence
Remember Turtle Island
Remember Wars and Epidemics
God brought to this land
Remember slavery and settlements
Labour and internments
Remember underground railroads
But no, you remember TV shows
You remember a single perspective of
What happens when a plane explodes
You remember which day brings
The all-new episodes
When there’s so much more under the tracks
An immigrant’s domesticated blood and bones
Now you’re asked to remember
What you never witnessed?
Clever, isn’t it? Simplistic messages
From wreckages your veterans
Are bound from speaking about
So now, you’re supposed to remember
Something from soldiers' lips in stitches
To keep them from being snitches?
We’re not being asked to remember
We’re being told
To surrender.
