Thoughts of an African-American male living in Southern California
Looking at the world
I ask myself
Why is this stuff happening?
Wars, bombings, suicides
How come every problem people have
They solve with violence
If we look back in time
What do we see?
I'll tell you what we see
We see violence creating more violence
Yes, past presidents may have signed treaties with other countries
But violence still waged on
All that I must say is this
Why can't we learn from the past?
Is it the fact that ignorance is now part of everybody's culture?
I am only one person
Trying to make the world better for my younger siblings
And for everybody else in the world
For I believe that nobody should suffer from anything
But our president thinks differently
Making peolpe suffer because of something
Sometimes it is nothing
But he doesn't matter
Because he isn't the one that is suffering
No this is not a poem written by a hippie
Yes, I might like peace
But that is because I am a pacifist
Just like my uncle, God Bless His Soul
But this is a poem written by a young mixed African-American male
Who would like to see a revolution
A revolution where people of different racial backgrounds can get together
Hand in hand and fight for equality among themselves
All of this racial crime bullsh*t is just a waste of time
Especially out here in Southern California
Where the Blacks and the Mexicans are killing each other for stupid reasons
Reasons like property and who they date
Come on, segregation is fuck*n 1959
But please let us try to make this world better
One place at a time
Sick and tired of people saying that the world can change
but yet nobody is doing anything to change it
STAND UP AND FIGHT
FOR FREEDOM, EQUALITY, AND UNITY