Ous Shihan
Ous!
Don't take the bus Shihan
Fuss!
Black and Whites outside Shihan
Don't trust!
Blacks and white inside Shihan
That's us!
Shared moments
Divergent paths funneling together
Deep respect and yet
I can swim toward the sharks without regret
Triggers pulled from a box buried deep below
A box planted by a young child trying to grow
In a racist world full of false division
A box overrides intellect, experience or vision
With no possible chance of going to prison
It kicks on with sympathetic but shows no compassion
A four letter F-word it don't describe passion
No this is the flip side four letters past D
And this box is buried too deep to see
It doesn't even matter if you try to flee
Hands up, Hands up, he even put up his heel,
Hands up, Hands up, hands on the steering wheel,
Don't Shoot, Don't Shoot, he's unarmed and innocent,
Don't Shoot, Don't Shoot, this life is not yet spent.
Officer, Officer, take a breath what you're seeing
It's me, it's me, another human being
Just take yourself to a secure and safe place
Do not terminate don't make it a race
I know society won't think that it's right
But if you approach I have no choice but to fight
Officer, officer, can you hear?
That voice in your head, it's nothing but FEAR.
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