The Man
Found 3 days later,
face down in the alley, dead.
16 year old boy,
with 16 shots to his head.
the boy’s last words,
was “What did I do?”
The Man
said, “Nothing, we just don’t like you.”
The Man
killed 6 million in Nazi Germany.
he said,
“I killed them, because they don't look like me.”
The Man
killed Oscar Grant at the station in the bay.
on the transit floor
on New Year's Day.
A Man
out with his friends marking a new start,
was shot and lie there split
like a broken heart.
The Man
shot up a church in Charleston out of hate.
He took nine lives
and yet still to this day
The Man
is being tried for murder that happened almost a year ago.
To me it sounds like
The Man, just wants to let him go.
Nine black lives
that don’t matter...
… but think about those nine families
you’ve just shattered.
Traevon’s, Oscar’s,
and Emmit’s too.
The Man should be punished,
but what do we do?
We elect him,
as our country’s head of state.
A man that speaks of women as pigs,
and being overweight.
The Man,
able to do anything with no penalty.
Should he make everything right
and how it supposed to be?
Every race coming together
without a violent scene.
If Martin came back
he’d say it’s still a dream.
But if a dream is really
just reality in disguise,
maybe The Man
just needs to open his eyes.