Just Admit It

For what, one must ask, do we watch what we say?

Does it keep our true feelings from going astray?

Or alter what anyone thinks in their mind?

When pondered, there’s only white lies there to find.

Just admit it.
 

Each time you exceed the speed limit they’ve made,

You’ve proven how most laws are just a charade.

We only obey in the fear of a fine,

Yet find ourselves ticketed more than one time.

Just admit it.
 

If a general thinks women should not join the Corps,

Could it be such a veteran knows more about war?

All men should be free, and all women should too,

But not every woman should do what men do.

Just admit it.
 

We’re created equal most people would say,

But Greece, Rome, or here in the US today,

We all have our rights that none should violate,

But there’s no debating our minds are as great

As Plato’s, DaVinci’s, nor Bonaparte’s, who

No person alive can claim they’re equal to.

Just admit it.
 

Yet we’re making quotas in every workplace

Insuring the work line has ten from each race.

This doesn’t insure for these trust or respect.

In fact, it demeans those we try to protect.

Our African brethren we started this for

Have had enough time to be angry and sore.

And this won’t diminish the import or debt,

But can't we forgive and yet still not forget?

Just admit it.
 

Don’t focus on hues of red, brown, yellow, black,

You’ll find there’s no need to defend nor attack.

The truth is: Each day we declare and bemoan

Our differences, they are more vividly shown.

The fact is, we all have a lineage to trace.

If we’re not content with our race, rank, or place,

It’s our right as souls in the form we’ve been cast

To forge ahead making our history the past.

Just admit it.
 

And what of gays we’ve all been forced to accept?

Could there be a law we’ve been sure to neglect?

In my life I’ve not seen an eagle nor bass,

Nor bear nor giraffe insert into an ass

The organ that serves to continue their race.

Such acts Mother Nature would judge a disgrace.

There’s only two things we as animals do:

Make sure we survive and make little ones too.

The pleasure of sex insures we’ll mate once more...

With opposite genders, but not the back door.

Just admit it.
 

Admit it, you want that close, front parking space,

Regardless of whether you limp with a brace.

And why can’t my coffee be discounted too?

Why must I pay more if I’m not sixty-two?

Just admit it.
 

We cannot say cripple, or faggot, or fat.

There’s lawsuits galore to make sure about that.

So have our skins grown so incredibly thin,

Or do people’s hearts change with new synonyms?

We’re niggers and crackers and rednecks and japs,

Wetbacks, redfaces, and retarded saps.

There’s honkeys and chinks, perverts and kikes,

Camel jockeys, homos, morons and dikes.

It’s time we admit things aren’t going so well;

That we wish those unlike us would just go to Hell!

It’s natural for species to feel some disgust,

And treat those with differences with some distrust.

But it isn’t natural or healthy to hide

Behind etiquette what we’re feeling inside.

Just admit it.
 

Honesty and truth would be the last step toward recognizing our conflicts,

And the first step toward resolving them...

Just admit it.