Just as we pave the way for the youth that follows.
I have hope that there will come a blessed day,
When "It Gets Better" doesn't ring so hollow.
When parents no longer turn out their lgbt child.
Just for daring to be who they were born to be.
I know the idea is amazing, a little crazy and wild.
But I have to have hope that we'll someday be free.
Free to love who we love, and marry who we choose.
Free to live openly without fear of being abused.
Free to know that our jobs we won't lose.
Free of the excuses that those churches like to use.
But today we are still struggling along the path.
Today our youth are still dying because of hate.
Every single one of us must use our wrath.
To give them a chance for a better fate.
Our youth are dying in the streets and in the schools.
Don't accept that there is nothing you can do.
Put in the time, volunteer, mentor, don't be a fool.
You might save a kid's life, it really is true.
You might give hope where there was none,
You might light someone's way.
You may change the mind of a kid with a gun.
Who thinks no one can hear what they say.
You might not succeed, and we'll lose some along the way.
It doesn't mean we ever stop trying.
Every child, every person deserves to be loved for who they are.
No child, no person should think living is harder than dying.
© 2012 CA Murphy
