Red, Blue, or Green, we all have to live here

Saddest thing about political discourse  
in this time and space  
is so many issues should transcend parties  
not even talking about race  
  
Now if your child is in a park  
and gets thirsty on a summer day  
clean water free of pollution  
is what we want going that way  
  
Doesn't matter if you are blue  
living in California sun  
or red in rural Oklahoma  
were whipping winds make anything come undone  
  
A bullet intended for a gang member  
that goes wrong and sprays away  
doesn't ask Democrat or Republican  
before it marks some innocent prey  
  
Coal dust from blowing off a mountain  
doesn't take it easier on a stout Green  
then an energy at all cost Tea Partier  
in anyone's lungs it will be mean  
  
A mother whose child that is starving  
doesn't contemplate the ballot picks  
just doing what she can  
to make sure that little one doesn't get sick  
  
I know that ever since Adams and Jefferson  
lines have been drawn firmly in the sand  
but isn't there something more noble  
what we all should really demand?