As Black Lives Matter Now

By blocking roads in Tennessee

And various and sundry spots

They’re protesting their slavery

On the behalf of all have-nots,

And maybe they accomplish what

They’d want to in their U.S.A.,

For every roadblock that they put

Stands in everyone else’s way.

“Life matters” they say if it’s black

But, what I’m wondering about,

Is what, that is, which lies in back

Of who it is they’re leaving out?

For, if life matters (and it does)

What does that really have to do

With someones coloring because

Their skin is of some other hue?

This has a certain “racial” ring

About it, which it would infer:

What matters is your coloring—

Not content of your character.

Whilst “Color-Blind Society”

Depends upon not looking at

Your chance “particularity”—

(Humanity is more than that)

“What is it that they really want”

Should be no secret as they call

For in their demonstrated chant

What ought be obvious to y’ all:

What do we want? already’s said;

Don’t ask me why it is somehow,

(The blood of cops is being shed)—

Coz that is all they call for now!