Forgive this brief intrusion —

Let me slip inside that noose —

To fight the great confusion

That our media let loose;

About the anger they devour

For whose tricks we tend to fall —

Pushing you inside a tower

Shoving me against a wall

From million-dollar mansions

And ivy-strangled schools

Their message of compassion

Peaks at the ears of fools;

Who pour blessing on their power

And forgiveness on their fall —

They deftly build a tower

Where the others build a wall

They demon-eyes the working class

To see what demons see —

Hypocrites who praise the past

Now living on their knees;

But that song they sing rings sour

Like some righteous free-for-all —

In the shadow of that tower

They still clamor for a wall

That rhetoric of love and choice —

A rumbling lion's roar —

Silencing the softer voice

That whispers, "end the war."

And though no one knows the hour

Of our fated final fall

They seek shelter in a tower

While the others seek a wall

The arrogance of Babel —

That progressive loup garou —

Which loves to rouse the rabble

And impose a point of view;

Which would have you duck and cower

To avoid Glenn Beck, et all—

From your safe-space leaning tower

Hurling rocks against the wall

The hubris of Jericho —

Now in the fist of Trump —

Let’s pray that he knows where to go

To free us from our slump

But we must speak truth to power

As we let the liars fall —

Or you'll be locked up in that tower

While I'm stuck behind this wall

The answer, friends, is found in love —

And love survives in truth

And truth requires a mixture of

Discourse, respect, and proof

And this is all within our power

If we heed that higher call —

For maybe then this fragile flower

Will grow strong

And straight

And tall