This Badge of Mine...

My Badge... by Just|Claridge. 

When will we understand the pain we are causing,

Our generation is bowing 'neath the weight,

We are all woke but not awaken,

To the devestation and the hate.

I see it everyday you know,

The fighting and the chaos.

I don't think it will stop at all,

Unless we step up, each one of us.

The Police, the Politicians and the public,

We fight against each other.

Each side has marked their line in ground,

We all just run for cover.

Them versus us versus them versus us

It all just seems to merge into dust. 

But as soon as you look in the mirror to see, 

It is just the same message packaged differently. 

I do what I do to make a difference to you, 

What I hear is, you don't know the pain I go through. 

You stop and you search and you push us around,

You hide behind uniforms to act the big man.

You cannot relate 'cus you don't suffer like us,

You abuse your damn power so we know you are near

But your wrong this is not why I make such a big fuss, 

I do what I do to protect you from fear. 

So take a step back, now what do you see?

A bully, a hero or even 'the man'

The person you run to when things don't go to plan? 

So before you stand there and pass judgement on me 

On what I do, how I do it and why that might be

You'll notice I'm just a man, with a life and a wife, no catch. 

Not a shill with no heart who was bullied at school, 

You'll find at the end of it all, at the end of the day

It's just simply me and my badge.