His Father's Son

ART: Title & Artist Unknown

His Mother Cries
tears flow from her eyes
she hopes her son will understand
His Daddy was just a man../

His Father's son
baby boy
innocent brown eyes
His daddy died
he was twenty five
shot by the cops
who called it justifiable homicide../

He grows up
the neighborhood changes
he's six feet tall
he wears a high top fade../

his mother cries
tears flow from her eyes
she understands
her son is an endangered species..
he's a young black man../

His Father's Son
brown skinned boy
his father's eyes...
now he too has died..
shot by persons unknown
close to his home...
listed as an unsolved homicide.../

and all the husbands,fathers and sons
don't matter
they come and they go..
and at their funerals we all gather
His Father's son
baby boy



His Father's eyes...../