dem bones

Dem Bones, by James Weldin Johnson

Oh those bones, oh those bones,
oh those skeleton bones.
Oh those bones, oh those bones,
oh those skeleton bones.

With the leg bone connected
to the knee bone,
and the knee bone connected
to the thigh bone,
and the thigh bone connected
to the hip bone.
Oh mercy how they scare!

Dem Bones, a popular spiritual poem/song sung originally to tell those that God will strengthen, resurrect the dead and make Dem Bones strong again. It was also a song used to teach children in Bible School and pre school basic anatomy. A song also to make the statement our body relies on all parts of its anatomy to help make us complete.

Seems in the 2011’s there are a whole bunch of people who follow the example of the sum of the parts make us complete, except along the way they seem to miss some of Dem Bones and instead of complete create convex, concave or misconstrued.

Dem bones, dem bones…

“It’s for the Children”, their version of the circle of life so it seems as those who shout loud and proud, that what they do is for the futures of children. When those who oppose freedom for women regarding their reproductive rights, or abortion rights providers, it makes you wonder for whom just whose children they are igniting the wrath of God. When the terrorists using Jesus’ name to humanly murder doctors, maim nurses, hurt the women seeking help, do the terrorists doing God’s work for the kids, not realize these people also have kids? For those so adamant to save the life of a fetus, even if it means killing the mother who may have some more kids at home; do they not realize that those kids will suffer? For the politicians who want to close down Planned Parenthood in the name of saving the kids, are they blind to the fact that parents and children living a life without basic health checkups will live a sour and sad life. Whose kids receive the advantage when they live their lives unhealthy and ill?

Dem bones, dem bones…

“This is not a socialist country; free market is more God like”. When we have protests coming from the Christian Conservative Coalition, insisting that America will lose its stars and stripes if we pass Obama Care or any bill that promotes that ALL Americans, rich poor, white black, gay straight receive adequate and affordable healthcare one wonders why that is so bad? When the welfare of all of God’s children is trying to be remedied in a country obsessed with I have and you don’t, I deserve and you don’t, it is hard to imagine that those who think God discovered America would not want that same God to keep all of us living in America equal. Why is it more God like to out price health care for some, limit it for others, deny it to many and think that in doing so seems to only comfort the CEO’s and shareholders and not those who want to live another day?

Dem bones, dem bones…

“It’s about spending. If you want to retire at 65 because the manual labor all your life has robbed your energy, if you need Medicare or Medicaid because the free market has allowed your health premiums to rise to unaffordable levels, if you want a retirement benefit so you can almost live a middle class life, if you want to earn a decent enough wage so each month you don’t have to decide which one is the priority, rent/mortgage/food/health care, you are being un-American, lazy, and selfish according to the Republican/Baggers If you want America to survive into the future, you will have to give up the present go poor, go broke and stay unhealthy.

If all you have is nothing you must sacrifice all of that nothing because those who have everything we are told will be able to help you out, eventually that is, once they have a little more. We hear about sacrifices, yet the only ones who seem to be asked to make those sacrifices are those who have little to nothing to give. Somehow giving up half of nothing seems a lot to ask when those with a whole lot more give up nothing.

Dem bones, dem bones, it seems more and more in this nation the sum of the whole is harder and harder to find. We got the arm bones which do not relate to the leg bones which do not connect with the hip bones. More and more it seems we are scattered, not whole. We have become a bunch of bones somehow not related to a whole body. Dem bones, dem bones, we are becoming a skeleton with no backbone.