By the time you let go
It was too late
What was it with you
That consumed so much hate?

How you knelt down
On his neck for so long
Did nothing in you
Scream, Wait this is wrong?

How bout the words
"I can't breathe"
The humanity
To give A MAN some relief

To see life drain
From pleading eyes
There has got to
Be some evil inside

A grown man
Calling out for his mother
How you had
No love or care for this brother

Black, white or brown
Let's love one another
One thing is for sure
We all bleed the same colour

I guarantee now
You'll never forget
What you thought was nothing
Is histories biggest upset

The BLM movement
Worldwide protestings
Black & white marching
From your act resulting

In that moment in time
You hadn't a clue
Just what the results
Of your actions would do

If you'd known in that time
The after taste from your cup
Would be so bitter
You would have got up!

Police brutality, racism
And the latter
All I can say is
Black lives really do matter

The hurt the pain
The families destroyed
Guess now you'll always remember
The name George Floyd.

I wear an old 45 for skin.
Side A is the surface you see;
White and pale under our winter's skies,
But much darker by September.
Side A does a fine job
Keeping my entrails in.
I like the harmony, beat and rhythm of it.

Side B of my skin is harlequin,
A melting *** of mosaic colours
You can't see,
But if you listen,
My lyric is a palette of hues.

What can tell my colour?
When I am inside
and when out
not in the heart?

A country divided
Depressing but true
Leadership wanting
By both Red and Blue.

Faction's aplenty
Each shouting loud
The noise overwhelming
Fomenting the crowd.

Cities in uproar
Police under siege
Anarchists aiming
Our culture to breach.

The media ecstatic
With words to inflame
No boundaries or morals
As if playing a game.

Yet above all this din
A message breaks through
The need to treat others
As you'd like them treat you.

Neither color nor creed
Must poison our soul
Our aim be just one
To make our world whole.

Different indeed
In more ways than one
But Americans all
A freedom hard won.

What happening to this earth,
I thought all lives matter,
White black brown we all need each other,
We need to stop fighting,
We need to unite in one manner,
We all should be respected,
Under one united banner.

Life's to short to be waring with one another,
Taking on the beef that was made by our fourfathers,
Rioting the streets to prove a point to our brothers,
What about the tears that is coming from our mother's.

Look at this earth we all live with each other,
I've got neighbours and friends of all creeds and colours,
We all go for a drink with one another,
And when the drinking done we get a kebab from our Turkish brother.

In the morning I get a coffee that comes from my Brazilian brother,
I go to work in a taxi from my Indian brother,
I get my hair cut nice from my Italian brother,
And my friends spits bars he's my Jamaican brother.

See when all this covids done we gunna need each other,
To rebuild this world for our sons and our mother's,
We need to realise that we all need to be together,
Only we can make the change and unite forever.

When we get cut we all bleed like each other,
When we are ill we all cry for our mothers,
When will we realise we are the same as one and another,
We just need to know that colours do not matter.

So weather your white black brown or a Chinese brother,
Please show some respect to all creeds and colours,
A new day is coming if we hold on tight to one another,
Let's kick out the nonsense all together.