Borrowed Time

A society where you can more safely look a crook in the eyes....than the law that’ll catch you by surprise,

It’s warm weather but it couldn’t be colder....those meant to protect got us looking over our shoulders,

From dirt man was born,

Now he’s laying down with his face in it....

we see the pain in others,

But some of us really facing it, there’s no embracing it.....

This madness there is,

A time in which I can’t imagine raising up kids,

They say handle it, so we handle it....got a grip on some handlebars,

But then they took the pedals, and the wheels so we couldn’t get far,

The fastest man alive is black, but a bullet is faster,

If I don’t lay down fast enough am I disrespecting the master?

I can breathe,

He can’t breathe.....it’s not covid-19,

Brutally murdered face down like he’s not a human being,

He can’t breathe,

I can breathe far away from the scene,

Dot my I’s cross my t’s and try not to be seen,

Just because I breathe today doesn’t mean I’ll breathe tomorrow,

I’ll do all I can in this life because a black man’s time is borrowed.