Why do you yell at me?

Why do you yell at me?

 

 

Why do you yell at me?

You yell at me and call me cracker or boss.

You yell at me and call me Uncle Tom.

You yell at me FK12.

You yell at me without knowing me.

You yell at me from behind your 1st Amendment.

Which I so solemnly defend that right!

You yell at me without knowing the pain I’ve seen to afford you the right of your 1st Amendment.

You categorize us all the same.

You yell at me that I’m a killer.

Yet never stopped to ask if I’ve ever even shot my gun.

You yell at me your vilest of obscenities.

Without a thought of how that keeps me awake at night.

You yell at me that you hope my wife leaves me.

Not realizing this job has already caused that.

You yell at me that you wish my kids would die.

Not knowing cancer took her last year.

You see you yell at me like I’m a robot without feeling and somehow it’s part of my job.

You yell at me without getting to know me.

 

 

I’m a father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife.

I’ve been married, divorced, remarried.

I’ve had kids and lost kids.

I’ve been promoted and demoted.

I’ve lost and I’ve won.

 I’ve seen people killed in car accidents, shootouts, over doses.

I’ve seen body parts amputated.

I’ve seen lots of death.

I’ve come to your house for domestics both physical and not.

I’ve cried with you and laughed with you.

I’ve been spit on and cussed out.

I’ve been in fights, for my life and been at death’s door.

I’ve been shot at and been shot.

I’ve been stabbed and I’ve been beaten.

I run to you in the worst moment of your worst day so you don’t have to suffer.

I’ve been the brunt of every American political opposition to law and order.

I’ve endured more hate and acts of aggression to take my life.

My life has been taken many times.

I have the burden of carrying the country on my shoulders.

 

 

Yet you yell at me without knowing me!

Why don’t you know me?

Because you don’t care.

I am the American Police Officer and I am here to serve!

 

This poem is about: 
Our world

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