My Hands Are Raised
Let’s talk…/ let’s
talk about the way to walk / the way to jaunt when one wasn’t taught at home /
I’ll give you my insight and hope and pray that its clearer than hindsight /
bullet proofs, badges and glocks have brought many of innocent victims into the
limelight / inspired many of speeches and rhymes, right? / Lootings, riots, and
general crimes right? / humanitarian efforts fall by the wayside; when one lays
motionless face down in the street / you see his daddy never taught him how to
properly greet an adrenaline rushing officer on his beat, with his gun in
hand and blinders on because he’s heard a few aggressive songs… on the radio /
not realizing that Radio needs his help and he deserves not be shot or jailed /
said officer rebels against all his official training and unrepresses
repressed desires to set afire, any complexion that’s different from him
/ my hands are raised , my hands are raised…the Lord said let vengeance belong
to HIM / but the street lights are getting dimmed and my mother is
calling me home, but the brothers are egging me on / because its wrath that
they seek / blood leaches through these streets providing subsistence and
motivation to the unguided mentalities who feel that it’s pointless to speak …/
out against injustice, for they only understand raising their hand to speak /
Because their daddies never taught them how to properly respond to an officer
on his beat / or how to properly respond to an atrocity witnessed on these
streets / so their neighborhoods become the burning flesh of the sinner whom
they’ve yet to meet or know / so the hostility grows and the bubbles turn into
boils and the rolling boils turn into flames and misplace anger Reigns supreme
/ while the perpetrators sit back and relax in anonymity / safe from rage
that their actions have caused, whether by choice or accident / you see the
side effects of being a male of African descent in America is deadly / whether
we are walking, driving, our life is on the line / whether degreed or felon,
the justice system seems less than compelling to seek out our aggressors /
whether trade worker or professor the justice system seems less than motivated
to seek out our aggressors / so when we seek out other means which may not be ideal
which causes them bring in the heavy artillery , which apparently they have on
standby / makes me wonder why? / there must be a systemic issue where people
with perceived power plot and scheme against certain individuals / you have
bullet proof vests, guns, grenades and tanks / I have my hands raised in honor
of the fallen, but a victim I’ll never be because my words are not just poetry
/ I will not burn my home or rob my neighbor, I will not wait for a savior / so
please tread cautiously because that rolling boil is almost a conflagration,
the underbelly is swelling…Father please guide this nation /
