To just sit back And let it happen Means she was derelict Or otherwise jus’ napping In either case They’ll be no high five slappin’ For giving away the city In a bow and wrappin’
It’s clear to me Her capacity was reached She allowed the decorum To be breached In contradiction to everything Dr. King preached What that says to me is She needs to be impeached
Now some or y’all will say Give the sister a break But my question to them Is how much does it take For her to stop sleeping And be shaken awake So it’s time that the sister Got hook or the rake
I wanr the name of genius Who burned down CVS Someone who doesn’t live there If I had to guess But it’s nothing but ashes now Nevertheless How come the police stood by And watched it digress
Looters and burners Are clearly implicated But they’re not the only ones It must be stated So can someone tell me why The mayor waited For her city to burn And only acted belated
To Just Sit Back is another poem inspired by the events in Baltimore in the wake of the Freddie Gray funeral.