CAPACITY TO CHANGE
Human beings have the capacity to change
Especially young adults and juveniles
The person you are at twenty
And who you mature into at forty
Are not the same, not by miles
To believe they are one and the same
Physically or psychologically
Is immoral, anti-nature, inhumane
We should be ashamed to categorically
Deny a human being’s capacity to change
The fundamental law of nature is
Everything changes, nothing remains the same
Evolution is the principle of Life itself.
Life without parole is immoral and inhumane
Human beings have the capacity to change
Life without parole is immoral and inhumane
Human beings have the capacity to change.
© Written by Trevor Mathis 7/1/16
WE DEMAND, IMMEDIATE RESULTS AND INSTANT SOLUTIONS
Death by incarceration
Is cruel and unusual
Costs many millions
The sentence impractical
Used in only fourteen states
And Pennsylvania is one
Applied racially
Targets Blacks mainly
In county and city
Too much disparity
Young adults juveniles
Affects much too many
An affront to evolving
Civilized societies
Does it represent you?
Doesn’t represent me
Social justice demands
Reform the justice system
The punish only era
Is over in America
Lock them up throw away the key
Hysterical mentality
That politically motivated
Media aided and abetted
Agenda to distract, point, blame
The symptoms but ignore the cause
Of the social ills in society
Hide the reality
The one percent
Income inequality
The lack of opportunity
Under education and
Extreme poverty
Distract attention, supply boogeymen
Stoke racial animus, wars start them
If all else fails make crime the problem
Black, brown faces, immigrants, children
Superpredators incorrigible
The political anthem, repeated often
Build many more prisons to send them
Job security for unionized men
Irrational fears and anxieties
Eventually shaped, fashioned molded
Insecurities
Target illusionary enemies
But the people woke up, stopped being fooled
And they began to demand resolutions
Occupy, Black Lives Matter, Direct Mass Actions
No gimmicks, no platitudes, no kneejerk reactions
But concrete structural social and political change
Level playing field, access, opportunity, the whole range
Social media enabled direct democratic participation
No politicians, mass popular activism on demand
We demand! Immediate results,
Instant solutions
No politically hatched gridlock nor
corporate backed convolutions
We demand! Immediate results,
Instant solutions
No politically hatched gridlock nor
corporate backed convolutions.
© Written by Trevor Mathis, 7/1/16
