Got a message in a bottle
Written in gas, helplessness and a lit rag
Labled with an inverted cross
And an upside down flag

Thrown by a Zoomer
At the Amerikkkan Dream
For propping up a vision
That is nothing that it claims to be

For every politician’s pandering
For every lawmaker’s lethargy
On passing policies requiring police department accountability

Riots for the unheard,
The marginalized

By the masked youth
With fire in their eyes

For every armchair activist
Decrying what happens in the streets

For every opportunist
Starting fires just to feel the heat

For the apathetic staring transfixed into the flames
For a world that’s getting increasingly strange…