Take Hold, Take Heart

Warm, safe, ever passive;
Blessed, rest, never changing.
Increasingly slow to be forgiving.
Were lives lain down for this?

For red and white,
The men and women fight.
Bullets flying, tears falling,
What good will it have done?

If here we sit,
Waiting to be shown the way.
If here we sit,
Forgetting to seize the day?

Take hold, take heart-
Live life, be smart!
Because of those who believed,
So much has been acheived.

Sing now, write now.
Dance now, study now.
Show them you believe too-
Show them the thanks that is long overdue.