By John Perry
What a year this has been,
it appears we’ve gone through hell and back again.
Black people can’t catch a break, even though we keep keeping the faith, …maybe that’s a mistake.
We don’t know where to go from here,
again I say, what a helluva year.
We lost Kobe and GiGi at the beginning,
went right into a Pandemic that seems to have no ending.
We had to witness eight minutes and forty-six seconds
for George Floyd to fatally die,
we wanted justice and all we got was our usual right to cry.
Next up, Breonna Taylor, what a waste,
that did nothing for our appetite,
as a matter of fact, it took away our taste.
Then there was the iconic John Lewis,
what can you not say about him, as his lights went dim,
get in good trouble he would say,
and don’t forget to move your feet when you pray;
The Black Lives Matter Movement was well on its way,
when lord and behold Jacob Blake gets shot seven times in the back,
in front of his three children, what a horrific act,
we all know it wasn’t necessary and that’s a fact.
The NBA and sports in general took a stand,
they’re all fed up with the “B.S.”, can you blame them man?
Now we just lost Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman to cancer,
at the young age of forty-three,
he was becoming one of the Giants in Hollywood,
with his excellent portrayal of legends James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall, he was really being all he could be.
It doesn’t seem fair, 2020 has been rough, more like a nightmare;
Black people still need to maintain,
now is not the time to go insane,
cause we know better than most, that this ain’t no damn game,
let’s just be sure to show up and show out at the polls,
that’s the dice we need to roll;
Our President is leading this country on a collision course
to crash and burn,
he’s too self-centered and egotistical to see his faults,
he’ll never learn.
We desperately need someone to replace him in his leadership role,
then maybe we can restore hope for this great country
and recapture its soul.
—John Perry, is a freelance writer, poet and active golfer with a passion for calling shots like he sees them and, then, telling it like it is. He resides in Orlando, Fla.
