Conviction

I have seen that blank stare before

No more feelings or emotion

The explosion of your mind and thoughts

Realizing you screwed up

Asking yourself “why didn’t I just get off him?”

Was it because I didn’t care

Or was it because I was in despair

So many years of darkness and death

Being shot at and threatened with violence

Young people dying, criminals not complying

Responding to calls your eyes wouldn’t believe

I didn’t wake up that morning

Planning on taking a life

I wanted kids and had a wife

What I did wasn’t right

I wish I could take back that moment in time

Not respond to the radio call for a crime that had just occurred

The majority of my life

I spent looking over my shoulder

Because of all the exposure

To the dark side of this world

I deserve to be held accountable for my actions

I didn’t listen and this happened

And now I hope my conviction

Will put the world in a position

Where we can all start to love each other again

Know that it doesn’t matter if your black or white

Everyone will be treated right

And we will all unite as one.