The Devil Dances And Ferguson, Missouri Burns

Don't give the devil his joy,
Don't give the devil his due.
Because the devil dances
In Ferguson, Missouri fanning
The flames of anger and hate!

Ferguson is in flames
Burning NOT from the
Fires ignited by saints
Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King
Or Dr. Hector P. Garcia.

Ferguson burns NOT
From the eternal truths of
God or Allah or Jehovah
Or Jesus or Mohammad
Or the Buddha.

Ferguson burns from
The festering hate and
Injustices STILL alive
In our day and time.
Ferguson burns!

OUR nation still sick,
OUR people still bleeding,
OUR wounds not truly
Tended to or healed.
So Ferguson burns!

If we don't live the Word
It's all just rhetoric.
Do not let their sacrifices
Be token efforts
Made in vain.

They who labored and
Paid so dear the price,
Look down from heaven
Upon the flames
Of Ferguson, Missouri.

They who planted the seeds
Which WE must nurture and tend,
Weep upon the flames.
How many more
Fergusons before we learn?