Atticus The Songbird
7.14.2015

Go set a watchman
They’re trying to kill a mockingbird
Watch a man
Go down in flames
For another man’s sins
For another man’s shames

“Hang’m high!”
The lynch mob’s words
‘Til the lone finch sang
Sang to save the mockingbird
Innocence was his claim
And he couldn’t watch a man
Unjustly wronged by the wayward herd

He defied the sins of the public
Innocence was his claim
Freedom for the mockingbird
The songbird’s song
The lawman’s words

So go tell the watchman
The finch led freedom’s fight
He had a different plan
Only different in whom saw freedom

Go tell the watchman
A man shed in a different light
Is not a different man
Only different in how we see him

In a different light
Reveal what’s right
Illuminated by the finch’s words
Freedom for the mockingbird
…Until another day
Another fight

But for now
Go tell the watchman
Justice served
They see the light
The finch’s word
Unearthed the lies
The mockingbird
Is free to fly