{"id":233,"date":"2017-02-23T17:49:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2017-02-23T17:49:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T22:49:19","slug":"a-poem-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/233","title":{"rendered":"A Poem For The 21st Century&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Children of a Lesser God<\/strong>\u00a0 by Eileen Manassian Ghali<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>I\u2019m tired of knowing\r\nThat because of my race\r\nBecause of where I live\r\nBecause of my last name\r\nI\u2019m part of the band\u2026\r\nThe children of a lesser God\r\n\r\nI\u2019m tired of knowing\r\nThat there is so much hate\r\nThat it can only escalate\r\nTill someone presses the button\r\nAnd we blow up in nuclear hate\r\nAll because\r\nSome of us are children\u2026\r\nChildren of a lesser God\r\n\r\nFirst world \r\nSecond world\r\nThird world\r\nLabels and degrees\r\nDifferent ideologies\r\nReligion no longer a balm\r\nBut something to cause harm\r\nHuman life of differing values\r\nWe mourn them differently\r\nfor some of them are children...\r\nChildren of a lesser God\r\n\r\nHow it must make God cry\r\nWhen His children bleed and die\r\nUnable to understand\r\nThat there is a grander plan\r\nOne of perfect harmony\r\nIn another place in time\r\n\r\nHe won\u2019t be sitting at heaven\u2019s gate\r\nAsking for an ID\r\nOr checking your nationality\r\nHe won\u2019t see the color of your face\r\nOr ask about your race\r\nAll He will want to know\r\nIs if you let love grow\r\nDid you live according to His will?\r\nDid you try to relieve suffering and pain?\r\nWere you the bandage of peace\r\nthat bound up the wounds of hate?\r\n\r\nFirst, second, third world people\r\nAre all children of one God\r\nThough some may disagree\r\nI ask you all to see\r\nThat we are all\r\nEvery single one of us...\r\nChildren of the Greatest God.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of a Lesser God\u00a0 by Eileen Manassian Ghali I\u2019m tired of knowing That because of my race Because of where I live Because of my last name I\u2019m part of the band\u2026 The children of a lesser God I\u2019m tired of knowing That there is so much hate That it can only escalate Till &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Poem For The 21st Century&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literaturepoetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-3L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":304,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/304","url_meta":{"origin":233,"position":0},"title":"Trump Continues To Show His True Colors&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Another Trump\u00a0administration lame\u00a0idea on\u00a0immigration. 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