Injustice

Injustice

You sell identities like lemonade
On a hot summer afternoon

You lick the frosting of another soul
Off of the barrel of your gun

You let murderers walk the streets
To fill prisons with sunflowers

You fill media with celebrity gossip
While people starve and die

Corruption cements the walls of justice together
While we debate basic human rights

And the worst part of it all
Is me sitting here letting it happen
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Kithinji Avatar
August 5, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Injustice is when you make two holes on a head which deserves one hole.
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