Real Heroes

By Cecilia Legister

There are heroes among us but you may never know them

They keep crying for justice and get angry quite often

Like Bogle the warrior who burnt a courthouse down

And Moses the liberator who killed at a frown

So you want a hero for your celebration of fools

And he must fit the description of an upholder of rules

But who will you choose to take up that challenge today

For your courthouses are worse than they were yesterday

A  man when angry speaks the language of his soul

But he can get killed for this crime you call afoul

Or at best he is set to rot in small stinking coops

And must wait it out painfully as you merrily loop the loops

Your wages is death but some find a way of escape

For others it’s a jungle and scrape they must scrape

And alas for those heroes who live in zinc mansions

You batter and kill them with your bloodletting sanctions

And a mother’s cry is drowned by the CCN news

That the police killed seven caught in a ruse

But you forgot to arrest the root of your corruption

And so a generation will rise with a vengeful mission

But there comes a day when God’s children will be free

For the righteous shall cover the earth as does water the sea

So keep holding up those placards for all the world to see

Keep hope for justice alive show up police brutality!