The Great Divide

I'd reconciled my anger

Got outside of danger.

I was waiting for some signal

A sign from angels.

When the tide

Turns against you

Its a strange sensation

A revelation of imagination.

I could change my course

And face the flow

Reap the seeds that

I had sewn or follow

That old river south.

Heres what I found out.

I was standing on

The Great Divide

Looking out across America.

Trying to find my truth

Define it for myself.

I died the day

When I saw this place.

I saw what I could lose.

A very simple mechanism

Separates the fool from wisdom

The lines between us

Are not real.

Conditioning is what

Makes us feel ignorant.

And apathy will feed our hate

So we can never give in.

There I was standing at

The Great Divide, looking for

The truth in America.

For all that time I searched

When I closed my eyes

I found the thing

I was looking for

I had it all the time.

So are we standing at

The Great Divide?

Is there hope for America?

Take the flag we wave

The freedoms that we sing.

Without respect for one other

It doesnt mean a thing