Now Sing Some of Your Songs

What did you sing as a child?
The pop songs you memorized,
Their choruses and fragments?

Hymns of the house of worship
Your family took you to,
Songs the adults sang at home?

Fiercely patriotic songs,
Nationalistic war songs,
Songs sung at protest marches?

Did you mangle the lyrics?
Did your peers or parents laugh?
If you were put on the spot

By someone demanding, Sing
Your songs, could you? Could you not?