#ferguson
The city’s burning…
Astride an undeniable racial divide
That spans a million miles wide
A mother’s tears cried
Over the sons who have died,
And no one can answer why
No matter how hard we try
It simply cannot be denied-
All the bullshit upon which we’ve relied;
That we’ve conquered
And moved onward
Towards enlightenment
Is just a figment,
A creation of our mistaken environment
That would have us believe
That racism no longer exists;
Reality dismissed-
Open your eyes
And you’ll see that the old adage still applies:
Racism is alive and well-
And that ugly truth just makes me mad as hell
Floating along in my fundamentally flawed blindness,
My chosen ignorance;
Mindless…
I turn a blind eye
Because it’s easier to deny
Than to accept the actuality
Of the world’s brutal reality-
That no matter how far we seem to have come,
We have failed to overcome