“The friendly skies” take flight with wings,
While we earth bound, check comments and things.
Are we “user friendly”, speaking right to all we see?
Or are we using “friendly fire” to kill them, sight unseen?
We have become a people who are hesitant to speak.
Because we may upset someone, even though it’s not our feat.
We’re told now what to say because we should be friendly one.
And in so doing, our conversations are no longer fun.
Sometimes these words and phrase project more than we did mean.
But friendship, true, intails the truth; it’s not always what it seems.
Can you speak truth without spite? Can bias be far gone?
If so, you are some miles ahead in singing this friendly song.
If we lose choice in what we speak, our words will not be kind.
Especially if we’re hammered at for not following blind.
Be real, the cause behind the scene is a politican’s scheme.
The real losers in this hard game is the separated team.
We cannot let others tell us how to think or act or feel.
It should be measured by grace, do tell; a genuineness so real.
Remarks abrupt, without concern, do not further the cause.
We need to think and wait a while; speak after a contemplated pause.
And in the end we should recall that free speech is our gift.
It should be used to liberate, to comfort, and to lift.
Sometimes it comes out different, but the purpose is the same.
You cannot help your fellow man by following their friendly game.
With all the talk about this friendly cloud we want to build.
We cannot get off the ground; we’d try, but just get killed.
Changing the words or signs will not rebuild what’s lost.
We need a change in the hearts of men – a friend, at any cost.
Would you follow someone who crossed the racial, gender zone?
Would you think twice of a strong man who walked here all alone?
He freed our speech, our hearts reclaimed, if only we could see.
We cannot alter by our words, but by God’s word supreme.
Oh sure, we could stay in the clouds and float on words of air.
Pretending by policing words we would be truly fair.
When will we wake up and realize this takes us no where.
It will inhibit truth and life and hurt those who do declare.