Paint Your Day with Dignity

Paint Your Day with Dignity

Paint your day with your finest brush

Dipped in dignity

For those not of your gender

For those not of your faith

For those not of your station in life

For those whose ancestry tells of disregarded tales

Expressed in beautiful shades of color.

Hold them to standards worthy of a civil society

But do not paint with too broad of a brush

Until you’ve walked many miles

In their tattered shoes.

Save your brush strokes of hatred for evil-by-design

Rigged systems that favor the already rich,

The all  too powerful, greedily

Using the poor as their punching bags

And the Earth as their slave.

Throw away the paint labeled ‘self-appointed judge and jury’

For a conspiracy you created in your science-bereft head

With the help of those who will never visit you in jail

Listen with your full palette

Laced with compassion

Dip your thickest brush into justice

And never forget those with feathers and fur.