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           Chicago Cries
I remember as an adolescent,
hearing Elvis sing "In The Ghetto".
It made me sad, it made me cry...
I'm white, I never felt privileged,
It filled my young soul with sorrow:
Why would any person have to live like that?
It is not fair, it is not just, or equitable.
Yet it goes on.
You would think that a man of color,
who had reached the pinnacle,
could save the city he called home;
yet with 8 years at the helm, Chicago cried...
Still as he is retired in Martha's Vineyard,
men fight with words and fire,
I cry, Chicago cries...
"On a cold and gray Chicago morning
another little baby child is born, in the 
ghetto, and his momma cries... "
 I cry, Chicago cries...

           ©  Joseph James
                 9/2/20    * Jer. 10:23

 

 This is not intended to be a political statement:

     It states the truth of my 11th year on earth back in 1969, it did and does
    "make me cry". I learned 6 years later what *Jeremiah said about man.
     Please read it and ponder how man has done ruling themselves...