It Will Be All Right
A lullaby to America from Bill Frist.
In those anxious midnight hours when you’re staring at the ceiling
And your thoughts turn and tumble like a hamster in a wheel.
The world we’ll leave our children when earth and air are poison,
Or the debt they owe before they’re born are not the fears you feel.
It’s not that leaking roof that keeps you up at night,
Or the savings you don’t have, the tuition you can’t afford;
Not the new hip for your mother that insurance will not cover
Or the word that came last week: your neighbor’s son’s been sent to war.
It’s those kids who wait ‘til after school to read the 10 commandments!
And the fellows 2 streets over who’ve been together 20 years
And now they want to go and say that they are married,
And angry kids who burn a flag that are your demon fears.
Don’t lie awake another restless night.
We’ll pass a bill- now go to sleep
Everything will be all Right.
Tracy Meisky is a poet, writer, singer, songwriter and all-around boat rocker from way back. Feel free to look around, but if you break it, you bought it.