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Society's pulse of

Heartless beatings in Tulsa

Murder compulsions

Over one black man

Alleged rapist

No proof but the papers

And a couple white faces

Convinced to let hatred get the better part of their beings

Three hundred dead eight hundred injured

Yet a quick glance around I can't find any winners

Never seeing how malice creates generations of broke weaklings

Fear and anxiety

Fear of unfamiliar faces

Let's be honest many issues are case by cases

The untied laces create trips in our psyches

Hard hearts hit the foundation harder than Nikes

Like these truths are self evident, but I know

I'm just another ignorant White kid

Implicitly racist

Hateful and naked

Before the world claiming fakeness

One body, one might, one story, one fight

We ain't Gods, seen him make the dawn, fightin with the night, break it down, understanding of his mind and how he writes

One body, one might, one story, one fight

Being one in the Spirit, one accord, we persevering, bringing life into spaces people dying hearts fearing

Well maybe history needs a makeover or just another resurfacing

Keep purging clean

Silencing the voices, in my head, on the street, in the ether

Yet I keep screaming, silently and I know you hear me

You can see it in my breathing

Tapping of my feet keeping steady rhythms of the anxious

Thank this cold climate of the godless, thoughtless automatic garbage, Pandora's box of a harlot

Internet with the infinite market

Every language, advantage, every ailment has a bandage

But what about the healing

Where's our cry for peeling, back each of the layers

Redlining other colors, no loans for the others

What happened to us brothers

Have we ever known Jesus

All are one in Christ nothing else can complete us

Change all ya cries into joy and repeat this

One body, one might, one story, one fight

We ain't Gods, seen him make the dawn, fightin with the night, break it down, understanding of his mind and how he writes

One body, one might, one story, one fight

Being one in the Spirit, one accord, we persevering, bringing life into spaces people dying hearts fearing

Oh Elaine

Where collusion was the catalyst

Bringing death to the activists for supposed insurrection

An infection in the minds of the people who were blind to the evils deep inside

Bitterness, hatred, malice, and strife

Woe to the cowards wielding power through the bloody knife

Innocent men only aggressive when provoked

Self-protection kickin in, while the conscience steady choked

But what could they do, take the fire unto death

Every breath mattered as they communally collected

Walkin step by step right into their sentencing

Corrupt courts judging by the tensions in

Society's apprehensions with

People of color who found success in distress

White people need to own up and break the walls of generations

Curses that penetrated our children and what they participating in

One body, one might, one story, one fight

We ain't Gods, seen him make the dawn, fightin with the night, break it down, understanding of his mind and how he writes

One body, one might, one story, one fight

Being one in the Spirit, one accord, we persevering, bringing life into spaces people dying hearts fearing

Hear me you true people of God

Hear the cries of your fellow brothers begging for your understanding

Those seeking unity

We're no longer strangers to one another

We are one in Christ

Pray ask God to heal your hearts of fear

and every emotion that accompanies your terrified souls

Let us serve one another as the body of Christ