A blank check

Was given to me

I could fill it out

With whatever amount

I need

What is the price

Of freedom

Or peace?

Has to be

A few hundred

At least

How much for safety?

I'd sure like that too

Long gone the days

Colored in black and blue

Is that too much to hope for?

Is that too much to ask?

For the world that I love

To simply love me back?