What use is a social conscience

If it is polluted like soiled underwear?

Who is a man full of good intentions

When they deliberately go nowhere?

What is a dream deferred

If it is never pursued?

Of what point is the common good

If the idea is never understood?

If brotherhood is an outmoded concept

How do we honor promises unkept?

When we send advocated aid overseas

How do we justify the home disease?

When will we stop being the world's police

And staunch the bleeding in our own backyard?

Will we ever cease controlling everyone else

And heal the wounds of our own we discard?

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