Can You Hear Me Now?

How about you try coming up for air?

Just because we're in the internet age

And everyone has their own megaphone

Doesn’t mean you have to use it so much

Instead of adding to the endless noise

Could you try to actually listen?

Not to the people with tents next to yours

Or the ones firing at your walls from theirs

But how about the ones building the bridge?

The ones who care less about red and blue

And more about all of humanity

It's true, you'll have to leave some things behind

Lay down that blasted megaphone to start

Even if we all don't see eye to eye

We have to get close enough not to shout

Time to accept that you don't know it all

That there might be something you've yet to learn

There is a chance they have your missing piece

It's possible that you have their piece too

Perhaps we can try solving the puzzle

By working with each other, not against

I'm a poet, not a politician

But I have looked in a mirror before

And I can tell you this with certainty

The person who you're trying to cancel

Looks a lot like you and a lot like me