God's Plan

Political and Socially Conscious Free Verse

Of late I have been unhappy, so I haven't written anything in a while publicly so, when the news story came across that an all-WHITE JURY IN MISSISSIPPI refused to indict, I had to respond.

https://www.msn.com/.../jury-declines-to.../ar-AA10Bub8

The forecast said that

We are not going to last

But the weatherman

Never did, and never.

Will understand God’s plan

Still, we can’t get justice

For Emmitt Till

I doubt we ever will

Because in April we

Sit on the windowsill

Waiting for it to rain

Hoping it will wash all our

Sins away

Still, we pray for salvation

To change our situation

Because the forecast still says

That we are not going to last

But they never did nor

Will they ever understand

God’s Plan

Soon the snow will come in June

Followed by monsoons over the next

Few months

What will we gain from all this rain?

A clean heart? A new start?

This is just a passing thought

As I am thinking that we are

Slowly sinking into in the abyss

How can we change this?

Still the weatherman doesn’t

Understand God’s plan

He never has and never will

Still, we can’t get no justice

For Emmett Till

And because you lie and

The Jews Lie (July) about the facts

The Holocaust was their payback

For all the lives lost

In American Slavery

It has been told that their

Monies helped to build

The ships that brought

Black Souls in Black Holes

To this nation

Now look at what they are facing

As they are still chasing salvation

Years later they are still trying

To change their situation

They too will never understand

God’s Plan

See, on August Twenty-Nine

I find that Katrina still floods

My mind

As I am left to remember

September, October, and November

Leaving December to remind me

That a King was born to save humanity

Now we March on from January through February

As the Ides of March has us focused on April

As the Resurrection will change our tune soon?

Still the weatherman doesn’t

Understand God’s Plan

He never has and never will

Still, we can’t get no justice

For Emmett Till

And because you lie (July) and

They lie

We will never get justice for

Emmett Till

Trayvon Martin

Breonna Taylor

George Floyd

Et al.

0800130002022 Nefarious J. Dorsey

Author's Note

https://www.msn.com/.../jury-declines-to.../ar-AA10Bub8

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I am reflected on the film "Ghosts of Mississippi"
No justice...no justice.
but there will be in the end...if there is something after this life like religions tell us, then
those who enslaved, who beat, who killed and thought they got away with it will meet
their judgment ...and it will be a really stiff sentence...
Your poem is fantastic....it moves along with a great beat...and that emphasizes what is
contained within. Moving and sharp.
j.

[Ken e Bujold]

really glad that i put this poem aside in my collections to read. Time has a way of getting away from us, and so it is only now that I have caught up to your marvelous write jerome. Justice can oftentimes appear not merely blind to the scales of fairness, but to the very workings of men's hearts. The story of Emmett Tell is a great case in point. But what makes your poem special is that the recent news story of still no justice for ET is merely a launching pad for a much deeper examination of what passes for news and understanding in our current times. This isn't an easy read, it demands one's attention to truly drive down to what you are saying. A case in point is your 3rd stanza which I have read several times now. I appreciate how you set its tone in such a way that people's assumptions are laid out, almost righteously (yes I think that's the right word) before being pulled out from under them.
Thanks for the great read
Ken