City of Brotherly Love?

My mom told me about another brother slain by the hands of another yesterday
Another family member
A mother’s son
A daughter’s father
Another brother now left without a father in this lovely City of Brotherly love.
Last night bullets rang in my driveway louder than the resonance of the Liberty bell
Makes me wonder if the crack’s story is an urban legend and it just wasn’t grazed by the bullet of another brother’s gun!
In a city where tourist purchase tshirts and buttons and pose under the LOVE sculptures,
Brothers are dying by the hands of other brothers!
In a city where the last two elected Mayors have been brothers…
Brothers what are you doing to stop these senseless crimes?
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” is like a joke to brothers from a time warped New Jack City movie where loyalty was non existent and fear based…
But when does your heart get heavy enough to fight for love…brother.
You cannot love the fact that your wife fears her child playing in a green-less playground with one broken swing and bullet shells, brother…
Can you truly say you are okay with your sons staying in buildings for recess in neighborhoods where drive-bys rattle classroom windows and teachers are more afraid of students and teaching comes secondary to discipline?
Brother when will you love your City enough to take it back?
When will you break the vicious cycle that is plaguing the city;
Effecting the younger generation of brothers worse than deaths from the HIV epidemic!
Wake up brothers!
The babies you are making will one day grow up and have to live in the sins of their fathers!
Brother your reality should be your benchmark to exceed far beyond the low percentages presented in your present…
When will you stop making excuses for what “the man” did and take ownership of your place in the Universe…
How about just starting here…in your beautiful City of Brotherly Love!