Care Beyond George Floyd

Four years before George Floyd met death Tony Timpa drew his last breath A cop pressed a knee into his back too Tony cried warnings, the warnings were true. Tony was white, George was black A knee in Tony's back wasn't a racist attack In neither case, was killing sought It was a bad police tactic, that cops were taught. If we talk of George Floyd also recall David Dorn When protests erupted, then riots were born You can cry "no justice, no peace' But a looter shot David, made his life cease. David, a black man, was trying to protect a store That too is a story we should not ignore To some, black lives matter only if the story resonates So many other stories buried in these United States. Don't just care when the outrage aligns, Think of the lives falling between the lines.