Paradoxes of Faith

4.21.06

Urban soldiers freedom fightin’
Fighting for freedom in concrete jungles
Pavement playas pump products
Producing twelve-year-old mamas & uncles
Victim turns to oppressor
Back to victim again
Free man lets up a moment
Then gets sold as a slave
In the land of the self-sufficient
And the home of the
Brave New World
World wide
Wide open
Graves, mouths
Commanding submission
And abetting the mission
Commissioned afresh to
Overflow America’s prisons
Swearing on white men’s Bibles
But receiving Black men’s sentences
Void of the money and power that
Reduce white men’s penances
Longing for a hot meal
And the hug from a good friend
Yet blindfolding by the system
Quenches the desire for freedom
Plea bargaining time off
Out of luck, bet’s off, time out!
Judicial blue light specials sold
To those with political muscle and hustle
And that’s how the West was
One, two, you’re out, that’s three strikes
Out of time, out of luck
Stuck facing 25 to Life
Locked up and keyed in
Spat the truth over again…