What’s in a name he asked
What’s in a color I said
Black, white, or shades of brown
All can be painted by one of our own
We sit, we stand, we laugh, we cry
Why didn’t you let him breathe
When he said he didn’t want to die
Would you have listened
And taken action
If I was a different color
Or would it have mattered
If I had bleached
Would you have treated
Me different
Treated me as a human
Without putting me in jail
If I put on a white face
Or would you then have said
It’s not your color it’s your race
It is justice I demand
For I am first a human
With a sound mind
And a rational head
Justice to be treated fairly
Justice to be treated equally
As my peers with a white face
Would you watch them
as you watch me?
Would you monitor them
as you monitor me?
For I am a human
Not an animal in a zoo
It is justice I demand
Oh why does it shock you?
Is justice only meant to
Serve the ones in command?
George Floyd is not dead
He lives amongst us
Sadly he paid the price
For justice to be heard
Why did it have to come to this
Did the nation have to burn?
When they could have
Just arrested them instead
I paid my price
For what I don’t know
Maybe for my color,
Maybe for my race,
Or maybe for the demand
To just be included
And now it’s time
For them to pay the price
The price for all the injustice
For justice is the price
You pay for peace
