Once there was a global pandemic,
One that killed without mercy,
But who could have known,
That the virus was not that deadly,
Compared to the virus that existed for so long,
Or that we had to fight two pandemics?
Who could have known,
That families could be ripped apart,
By the inhumanity of the humans?
Who could have known,
That the people who walked around us,
The people who wanted peace like us,
Would be the very people,
That would lynch our young ones,
Profiling them like beasts in the jungle,
Preying on their innocence,
And carelessly taking lives?
Who could have known,
That mothers, papas and guardians,
Would watch their kids die before them?
Deaths so unnatural, the blank space suffocated?
That families would be left to deal with blanks?
It hurts so bad,
Hearts so broken,
Endless agony,
Plights of justice,
To a system so cursed,
One that favors no one.
Teach me how to fill the blank spaces,
Tell me why we should trust the system,
Why we should have dreams,
Why we should hope for tomorrow,
When tomorrow is not promised,
In a nation that we were bred in,
If only the blank spaces mattered to the system.
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