What a good fight.
Did you think it’s right
Comparing a human’s life
To a World Series?
Retaliation to get even,
Creating a series of oppression, separation, despair
For the next generation
Who’s stuck in the nose-bleeders.
Where’s our leaders
Who lack empathy, compassion, childhood direction,
Governed by systemic racism?
Are they on death row,
Contributing to mass incarceration?
Or waiting for adoption, a sister of color?
Massive supervision,
Imagine 95% of your city on parole.
Is it inhumane, insane? Probably makes Jim Crow sing and dance,
Honoring the minority class in everlasting pain.
A puppet master’s dream
The courtroom scene,
Pulling strings,
Judges enjoying the pleas.
5% go to trial
95% are escaping pain with crack, cocaine, prescription drugs,
Majority unfair sentences.
When in doubt, send a cocaine scout,
Six months out, while supporting a habit,
Stealing like a rabbit, and mental health unravels.
Categorize people’s lives as three strikes, where’s the light?
Most people change
Courage is our inner flame
Changing things one at a time,
It’s not a crime.
Public opinion change is needed;
Advocates arise, demonstrations occur,
Money-raising and state legislatures doing some good for the misunderstood.
What’s wrong with a moral compass in position
Tested throughout time?
Could a person in power twist reality,
Lynch everybody, or honor the principle of truth?
We need to earn re-election, oppose suppression,
Helping those from deaf ears, abandoned by fears.
