Bleeding America (repost)

Ding dong, ring the bell, someone call the doctor

Cause she’s bleeding out her wrists and her eyes are closed slits.

Somebody call the doctor

Cause America is bleeding.

Someone call the doctor

Can no one hear me screaming?

Someone call the doctor

Cause I think I’m watching a suicide

Someone call the doctor

Cause this is the last stand of my pride

Someone get the medic

Because I can’t feel a beat

Someone get the professionals

Before America’s a lifeless sack of meat

America is bleeding,

Do they hear her now?

Her suffering isn’t as fleeting

As it looks to us from here

And poor little America

Is facing her greatest fear.

Someone call the doctor

Cause America is bleeding

And I want to call an armistice

But I don’t have the power

Someone call the doctor

Ease my shredded justice

Or young, naive America

Will become a wilted flower.

Someone call the medic

Cause I can’t feel a pulse

I think we need to shock her

With a couple hundred volts

Someone call the hospital

I think her life’s at stake

And you can kneel upon my neck

If this turns out to be fake

Someone call the doctor

Cause I feel her heartbeat slow

And if she breathes her final breath,

It will be a crippling blow.

Someone call the doctor

She’s been fighting this for years

Someone call the doctor

She watches and sheds her tears

Someone call the doctor

Get her in a stretcher.

I don’t want another life

Shot down by fate’s cruel archer

I’m begging you don’t look away

For this is one death too many

And if you stay in silence too long

The world may forget there was any.

Someone call the doctor please

She won’t hold on much more

Cause America is bleeding,

One foot across the holy door.

And if no one can make a change

Well that’s just fine by me.

I’ll go join America

In ignorant eternity.

Original post: https://theprose.com/post/359761/bleeding-america