12 december 2020

Ted for Eternity

 not-guilty verdicts

pepper my vision of field.

how they prey on brothers

  brings back2mine 

how they killed my cousin

tho he wore a shield.


“Friendly”

fire

shot

dead


Couldn’t allow that Ted light to shine


Wait,

why’s

a cadet

not equipped

with a vest?


 - used live rounds

in a simulated fire fight

not considered

 a practice that’s best.


For the now single Mom no longer a wife

unpurchased armor

a debt more costly than a life.



now - urged by suffering

from recalling

 too

   many

     lives

       simply  

          dismissed.


Preparing

WE Rise up

NOW

Take right action

for a time

such as this.


Like David’s

we face giants

that shapeshift

to follow greed.


blood for dollars

boils over

doesn’t protect

speeds the bleed.


follow the money

for profit prisons

root sources

long revealed.


Citing case law

and media complicity

quickly

dismissed

lost on appeal.



God,

we,

in

TRUST

... through US make

ALL things NEW.


advances

diminished

... our workers?

too few.


Bring leaders’

to bear

burdens

heaped upon

the LEAST

of these.


And Teddy would smile

calmly

saying:

With YOU

I-AM

well

pleased.