FOCUS July 31, 2015

Dentist, vacation, affluence, beguiled

Safari, desert, big game, not wild

Ego, trophy, bragging rights

Ferocious, King, arrow, did bite

Emotions flowing like Niagara Falls

American, Caucasian, standing tall

Disapproval, disfavor, disinclination, displeasure, dislike

Instigate, inflame, inspire, invigorate, impassion, induce, irritate, incite

Exasperated, embittered, enraged, enflamed

Justice for Cecil, America proclaimed

The murder of an animal was the horrific crime

But was not this warranted for the Charleston nine

For: Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, Susie Jackson,

 Ethel Lee Lance,Depayne Middleton, 

Clementa C. Pinckney,Tywanza Sanders,

Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 

and Myra Thompson

America why don’t you cry, 

Oh I forgot, you just let your dead chattel lie

Dylann Storm Roof, Burger King deserves

 For an African lion, the world roars

Somebody please tell me who is keeping the score

My beautiful sisters and brothers verses the police you see

In 2014 over 100 killed that look like me

In 2015 more black soul prematurely set free

Names gone forgotten unlike Cecil the lion:

2014

Jeremy Lake, Dontre Hamilton, Justin Griffin, 

Brian Demarcus West,Jameel Harrison, 

Keara Crowder, Jeffrey Ragland, David Mendoza, 

Jerry Brown,Anthony Bartley, Sandy James McCall, 

Dustin Keith Glover, Eldrin Smart,

 Kenneth Christopher Lucas, Ernest Satterwhite, 

Ronald Singleton, Steven IsbySamuel Shields, 

D'Andre Berghardt Jr., Briatay McDuffie, 

Montez Dewayne Hambric,Amir Brooks, Iretha Lilly, 

Dante Parker, Adam Ardett Madison, Michael Ricardo Minor,

Dennis Grigsby, Jerome Dexter Christmas, 

DeAndre Lloyd Starks,Tyree Woodson,Charles Smith,

Andre Milton, Darrien Nathaniel Hunt, Levon Leroy Love,

Matthew Walker, Balantine Mbegbu, Rumain Brisbon, 

Christopher Jones,Arvel Douglas Williams, 

Mark Anthony Blocker, Willie Harden, Latandra Ellington,

Jacorey Calhoun, Cortez Washington, David Yearby, 

Victor White III, Lashano Gilbert,Eric Garner,  

Akai Gurley, Eric Ricks, Cedric Stanley, 

Emanuel Jean-Baptiste,Tyrone Davis, John T. Wilson, 

Willie Sams, Robert Storay, Ezell Ford,Craig J. McKinnis, 

Lavon King,  Eugene Williams, David Andre Scott,

Paul Ray Kemp Jr., Eddie Ray Epperson, Hallis Kinsey, 

Jordan Baker, Treon Johnson, Kaldrick Donald, 

Robert Baltimore, Cameron Tillman, Florence White, 

Vernicia Woodard, DeAngelo Woods, Justin Sullivan,

Michael Brown Jr., Jacqueline Nichols, Briant Paula,

Christopher McCray, Gregory Lewis Towns Jr., 

Juan May, Anesson Joseph,Zikarious Flint, 

Antoine Dominique Hunter, Charles Goodridge, 

Jason Harrison, Wally Flex, Corey Levert Tanner, 

Tamir E. Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Jerame C. Reid,

Ricky Deangelo Hinkle, John H. Crawford III, 

Yvette Smith, Quentin Byrd,Tommy Yancy, 

Rondre Lamar Hornbeak, Emerson Clayton Jr., 

Dominique Franklin Jr.,George V. King, 

Oliver Jarrod Gregoire, and Michael Laray Dozer,

2015

Samuel Dubose, Sandra Bland, Walter Scott, Bernard Moore, Lavall Hall,Jonathan Ryan Paul, Jamie Croom, Terry Garnett Jr., Monique Jenee Deckard,Tony Terrell Robinson Jr., Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence, Naeschylus Vinzant,Andrew Anthony Williams,Dewayne Deshawn Ward Jr., Ledarius Williams,Yvette Henderson, Edward Donnell Bright Sr., Thomas Allen Jr.,Charley Leundeu Keunang, Fednel Rhinvil,Shaquille C.Barrow,Kendre Omari Alston, Brandon Jones, Darrell “Hubbard” Gatewood,Cornelius J. Parker, Ian Sherrod, Jermonte Fletcher, Darin Hutchins,Glenn C. Lewis, Calvon A. Reid, Tiano Meton, Demaris Turner,Isaac Holmes, A’Donte Washington, Terry Price, Stanley Lamar Grant, Askari Roberts,Dewayne Carr, Terrance Moxley, Theodore Johnson, Cedrick Lamont Bishop,Anthony Hill, Terence D. Walke, Janisha Fonville, Phillip Watkins, Anthony Bess,Desmond Luster Sr., James Howard Allen, Natasha McKenna, Herbert HillMarkell Atkins, Kavonda Earl Payton, Rodney Walker, Donte Sowell,Mario A. Jordan, Artago Damon Howard, Andre Larone Murphy Sr.,Marcus Ryan Golden, Brian Pickett, Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed,Ronald Sneed, Leslie Sapp III, and  Matthew Ajibade

Rally, donate, sponsor, grant

Not for a lion but for man

Is there any hope for Justice

In these horrific things

When the world has focused on the

Jungle king

Text copyright © 2015 Jeffery F. Moffett