Here they come again with the Hashtag

Everywhere people are shedding tears

Their cities are burning, and families are mourning

But they could not be comforted.

Each day mothers and fathers worry

About their children leaving home and never returning.

Men and women, black as me, are the fallen victims,

Those they trust rather snare them to death

Whom do you trust when the protector is the perpetrator?

And the law stands by while the pain intensifies.

Remember Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice,

Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown.

How many miles more to walk to Selma?

And they looked into the tall sky till they dropped:

Lord, how long will righteousness come?

How long will their hopes die in the rain?