Can you believe or understand?
Can you believe or understand?
A young man with a bag of skittles and a can of soda in his hand
could be shot dead?
with no justice..
only a few sobby tears and hooded shirts with his face on them
so i guess it was true
people only care if you're pretty, dying, or dead
a man gets free because "stand your ground law" was what he said.
or.. what he clamed
the jury said he wasn't the one to blame
well that's a shame
what did treyvon do
now his body is left to deteriorate,
althought what's doing the opposite is his name
but i assure you , it isn't the same.
as it would be if his mother and father got to see him in the flesh again.
months later Zimmerman is arrested for pointing a gun to a white woman
she didn' die, but she did cry
and he's off stuck in jail without bail.
in no way am i saying he was right , but hell.
That's not the crime he should have been incarcerated for.
Treyvon will never resurrect and walk again.
But they let his shooter walk out the door.
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