By: Cedric McClester

How many falsely accused
Never make the news?
Still some refuse
To be disabused
From the notion
That’s in motion
Punishment wise
Demanding the accused dies

How many paid the cost,
Had their lives lost,
Based on evidence
That doesn’t make sense?
Been tried, and convicted
Had their freedom restricted
Then placed on death row
Up until they go

Was the law meant,
To convict the innocent?
Presumed guilty when caught,
As history has taught?
Have ‘em sent to the pen,
Because of the color of their skin?
And that old paradigm
They’ll serve twice as much time

Better, six go free,
Than for us to decree
That one innocent dies
Who might not otherwise
See justice demands
That we have even hands
And we should keep in mind
That it’s never been blind



                       Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2019.  Zll rights reserved.








          Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2019.  Zll rights reserved.