One couldn’t exactly say that/
Daddy was a man of peace/
But I think he was tired and weary/
of fighting for his humanity/
as a Black man/
he retired to defend his house and land/
wife and children/
having seen the world by boat/
the last movie he ever saw was the day/
President Kennedy was killed/
it was announced in the theater/
he took his small daughter home/
and refused to see another movie/
never went to restaurants/
sat by the window on the porch with a bat by the door/
and defended the neighborhood/
I watched him shout at some guys carrying a TV looking odd/
they had robbed an apartment/
dropped the set and ran/
he saved some things/
he may have saved some lives/
but he was tired/
weary of defending his humanity/
and sad/
always sad/
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