'Segregate Your Heaven'

'Segregate Your Heaven'

Please segregate your heaven...Lord

Before I join you there

For mingling with some races

Is more than I can bear...

You see...I am a Christian...Lord

and as You must well know

Much better than all colored folk

And sinners down below.

I go to church each Sunday...Lord

Singing praise to you till late

I read my bible now and then

Tho it's quite out of date.

You see...

Things are quite different...Lord

We're much more learned men

We know those

Foolish laws have changed

That were in force back then.

The ones that speak of mercy

Of love for all mankind

Of bearing each others burdens

Of sharing with lame and blind.

So segregate your heaven...Lord

That when we hear deaths moan

Christians like me everywhere

May Reap what we have sown...

Kesti©

1967

I wrote this many years ago

trying to shame people into

stopping their foolish bigotry.

In 43 years we have made

progress, but we still

have a long way

to go.