Tuesday, June 3, 2008

I'm having a Kodak moment
Alot of negatives on display
I gotta take them down to Walmart
And process them the old fashion way

Don't I wish I could delete
Like they do on the camera's today
Then I could just skip the songs
Of what's wrong like everybody else today

This negative started to develop on Sunday
From a field trip to Costco K
When a negative locked on to me
That I had to process the other way

A little old lady on a gas cart
Ran into a display
It really didn't do anything to me
It was what the black guy had to say

His sneer was way out of order
Her fear jumped ten fold I'd say
The look in her eyes was sheer terror
And her daughter added to the fray

She started to scream at her mother
Who was 80 if she was a day
And her fear was to much
For me to just walk away

So I gave the touch
That the one that doesn't take much
That says no worries it'll be ok
And made her smile again that day

It struck me on how badly she was treated
How her daughter just blew her away
To appease the black man's needs
To berate the little old woman that way

I'm sure she must love her mother
When she called her mommy
I heard the special way
She loved her very much I'd say

But his need was to make her bleed
Like the elderly didn't count that way
So I stared him down like the dog he was
And made him back away

What her daughter didn't do I did
And it still pisses me off today
That to balance a bad situation
Her daughter would punish her mother that way

It's stuck in my craw till it's raw
How many get treated that way
Slaughtered like sheep
So a bully could be dignified
For acting that way