Values of the Core
What does it say
When we turn away
From the faces in need
From the eyes
Hungry
Behind barbed wire fences
For the freedom
That lies
Just beyond
What does it say
When we deny children
The basic rights
Of all human life
To live and learn
And grow
Unafraid
Coming to
One day
Nourish their own
What does it say
When we deny our people
The rights to think
And wonder
And puzzle out
The complexities of life
That our Founders
Guaranteed
Would never go unfulfilled
It says we live
In a world
Of hate
And fear
And values so abased
They can not
Must not
Be ours to keep
Reach out across the fence
The divide
The vast differences that
Together
Make us strong
Reach out and declare
For all to hear
That we will NOT
Be a part of that bitter world
And know that if you have only
Reached one soul
You have
Already made the world
A better
And more humane
Place for all