Redemption

Please forgive me
Cause I failed to mention
That I am looking for
Redemption
Today I am looking
To change my ways
So is it surprising
That the uprising
Is not here to stay
The truth has gone
Away
As the lies are here
So I pray that you
Forgive me
Cause I failed to mention
That I am looking
For redemption
No attention for my
Cause
I have spent my time
Behind bars
So far the truth
And mistakes of
My youth
Leaves me with nothing
To hold
Cause now that
I am old
The truth needs
To be told
Forgive me cause
I failed to mention
That I am looking
For redemption

From Montego Bay
To Tivoli Gardens
To Spanishtown
To the grounds of
Red Rocks
The blood that flows
From my sins
Never stops
So it now begins but
It will never end
Until I make amends
Cause I know
That you reap
What you sow
So I know
That I need you
To forgive me
Cause I failed to mention
That I am looking
For redemption
Not attention

A million men
Again
Pledge their allegiances
Collectively
But individually
Each must
Go back home
And atone
In order to change
Their communities
Did they fail to mention
That we all need redemption
Not attention

P.S.

In this lifetime
I find
That I need
Redemption

Author's Note

Inspired by Bob Marley's Redemption Song and the Million Man March

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like the cycle in this...we seek redemption but constantly fall----so many chances to redeem ourselves, but too often those who claim to want redemption, really are fooling us...because the promises are so shallow.

really like this.

j.

[Jerome F Knox III pseudonym Nefarious J. Dorsey]

Thanks Jacob for the kind words and for being a great mentor.