Even Good Police Are Afraid To Go Up Against Bad Police Poem by Terence George Craddock

'Even good police
are afraid to go up
against bad police.'

we can call this
good cops
bad cops

but the truth is evil hates innocence

evil is not a myth
beatings murders planned
committed deliberately

are not acts of spontaneity
they are premediated hate crimes
perpetrated against innocent

people by people who choose to hate
persecute instead of help love
their fellow human beings;

we who fail to speak for the innocent
strive to protect the innocent
are guilty of failing to protect

to advocate human rights
we who fail to save the innocent
or force authorities to punish the guilty

to impose justice
due to indifference or cowardice
are guilty of complicity;

in beatings and murders hate
filled people cruel despicable commit
ultimately we must choose justice humanity

righteousness and what is good
or injustice inhumanity evil and that which is bad
do not excuse or justify evil

the time to choose
between the old cliché right
and wrong is always now;


Copyright © Terence George Craddock