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Writer's pictureEdwin Janney

IF NOT FOR THE VIDEO CAMARA




If not for the video camara

A painful, daunting past

Even to this day and era

Cannot be shoved in the past


If not for smartphone lookouts

That caught it all on tape

We would have missed out

On this rage and terrible hate


Bullets rage from bad policing

Aimed to a Blackman’s back

Unarmed and for dear life fleeing

No chance to seek his life back


How many have perished

A which a camara could not capture

That we still in heart do cherish

As we cry to transform this culture


Yes, Black lives should matter

Was that not his dream

If all of life should matter

Why then all this steam


No disdain for the policeman

Who seeks the law to uphold

But more the lawman

With much of hate to unfold


Not so fast this time cowboy

No Justice, No Peace

No room no more for this ploy

We will take to the street

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