For Those Who Came Before - Craig Bassett

[Larry Robinson]

For Those Who Came Before

Silence that breaks the strongest of eardrums
The lynching rope's last whispers,
Cracking as it stretches before the awful truth
Of pure unrelenting ignorance.

Where innocence is crowned in thorns
Just as it was centuries before
To noble the cause of awakening.

The good buried deep
Remembered only vaguely by the grave digger,
Who unapologetically does his sole labor 
To forget the past.

Erasing the deeds that mock harshly 
Humanity's false imaginings
Of its evolved state.

Denial, whose Sunday preacher
Emancipates with sweat and spittle
Any doubts of conscience or equality
In the name of Jesus.

To whom any or all injustices can be righted
Tightly, like a taunt rope.

	- Craig Bassett