Injustice and Upheaval

A man was shot

Opening old racial wounds.

Vultures circled

Around the still drying blood.

Setting the internet ablaze

With their preaching agendas

Driving the media into a frenzy.

Like magma bursting to the surface

Anger flowed.

Anger for injustices

Brought on by the overzealous police.

Black lives matter

Raise your arms

Don’t shoot

As outrage yelled and looted

A church burned

Under the unrelenting mob.

A few tried to calm the flames

They tried to be the quenching rain

To quell the fiery anger.

An old soldier stood on the front lines

Speaking reasonably

Telling them to go home.

Saying it isn’t worth the anger

Mothers grabbed their children

Curfews were placed

At first there was little effect

Slowly it began to build.

Cooler voices grew louder

The fires died

Cooling the outrage

Into peaceful protest.