Step Up Or Get Out Of The Way

I’m stepping out from behind the poet’s screen

Just to make sure you know what I mean.

My name is Jim and what I’d like to discuss

Is the unceasing need to call names and fuss

I thought it was “we’re all in this together,” not “them” and “us.”

What we all need to be jumping on’s a fire truck not a bus

If we’re all in this together putting out these fires,

Could we set aside the need to call each other liars? 

Sure what they said was very likely a lie,

But that doesn’t require me to shout it out.

Events will catch up to them, by and by.

And soon by most they’ll be found out.

If it’s really important later on to know fiction from fact,

The fact-checkers will dig it up when we need to be exact.

In the mean time, let’s all get on with doing these things 

And “work together” to remember what peace it brings.

We’ve a lot more to do than just saying our “thank-you’s” 

Let’s start helping others as if we were in their shoes.

Whether you’re a republican or a democrat matters little today,

Just “Lead. Follow or get out of the way,”

4/15/2020