"With Liberty and Justice for All"

A System We Call Justice
Where A State Grants Itself
The Authority to Kill
When Reasonable Doubt
Is a Moving Standard

When the Plea of the World
Is A Cry that Nobody Hears
Where Our Own President
Turns Away
From the Calls
Of His Own Brother
And the Life of A Policeman
Means More Than a Black Man's

In A Country
Where an African Immigrant
Came to Be Free
And is Shot 41 Times by the NYPD
And Later We Find
It Was All a Mistake Made By the Police
Diallo Diallo
Is Finally Free
And Resting in Peace

As Troy Davis Dies
Parting From His Family
Let the Words of the Amnesty President Say
The Light of His Darkest Days
Is Greater Than Any Manmade Court Date
And That the True Place of Justice Is
In the Hearts of Those Where God Lives...

-In memory of Troy Davis who was sentenced to the death penalty on 9/21/11 despite the reasonable doubt surrounding his conviction, despite claims of his innocence, and despite a worlwide outcry of a grave human rights violation committed by the state of georgia in sentencing him to death. Also in memory of Amadou Diallo-an innocent African immigrant from Guinea who was shot 41 times in NYC by the NYPD, and for the many others who are a testament to the injustice of the criminal justice system and whose light and lives may inspire us to live rightly in freedom.