Work to Do

This generation man has work to do

We tend to fall in love with the finer things but don't you know that the finest things ain't designer things?
And so this rhyming thing is my truth 
Because we fight over the petty unimportant things while the police our killing our Kings and youth
We scream for change and rant about the violence in our tweets, but when it's time to stand, our hashtags change from #SandraBland to #DrakevsMeek
When will our focus shift and stay on the safety of our people. Today. 
The Man's sense of entitlement is a danger to our environment and a threat to our lives and space. 
But we are so quick to forget that it could be us with a bullet in our back, laying in the street or struggling to get out the words "I can't breathe"
Thinking we deserve to win a war we never had to fight, what is our right? To simply expect freedom from a never ending battle. We don't know struggle and pain. ever see a mother's face after her child's been sold away? 
We can't see the destruction we do to our very own people from our unspoken words to our generational chains
You can't teach an old America, I mean an old racist, I mean an old horse new tricks, so we have to be ones to the start the change and begin the fix. 
With the energy of the youth and the mental strength of the elderly, we could create the racial revolution of the century. 
Cleverly we'll steal what once was ours and see the glory, if we could only apply the past to the present and stop living a sob story. 
We are better than who we're supposed to be
We are free be the leaders of a new history. 
 
This poem is about: 
My community
My country
Our world

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