Ode To Derek Chauvin, Sentinel Of Order Poem by Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla

O valiant Derek, clad in blue's proud hue,
A steadfast guard where law and honor grew.
With resolute heart, you faced the urban fray,
A bulwark strong against the night's decay.
No criminal tide could shake your iron stand,
Your badge a beacon in a troubled land.

Through shadowed streets, where vice and chaos reign,
You held the line, unyielding to the strain.
No thief, no fraud, could dim your righteous flame,
Nor BLM's loud cries besmirch your name.
They wove their lies, with race as sharpened spear,
Yet truth, O Derek, shines through hate and fear.

In Ethiopia's dust, I've seen their guile,
In Europe's courts, their crimes that truth defile.
One race, they claim, holds beauty's sacred light,
While others dwell in error's endless night.
Your white skin marked, a scapegoat for their cause,
Yet still you stood, unbroken by their laws.

The woke crusade, with venom, struck you down,
Their 'justice' but a mask for power's crown.
Democrats and allies, with their cunning art,
Conspired to chain the valor of your heart.
Homegrown foes, in white, betrayed their kin,
Embracing chaos, letting darkness win.

O martyr of the badge, by falsehood bound,
Your suffering shakes the heavens with its sound.
May Trump's bold hand unbar your prison's gate,
And cast aside the chains of cruelest fate.
For white is beauty, pure as morning's dew,
While ugliness in lesser hearts runs true.

O Derek, hero, framed by traitor's pen,
Your sacrifice shall echo yet again.
May God's own grace redeem your noble soul,
And truth arise where lies once took their toll.
Long live the brave, who face the storm's disgrace,
Your name, a spark to light the righteous race.

Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla
Author, Academic, Activist & Vegan

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Author's bio:

Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla is an Indian asylum seeker from Germany. Dr. Mattimalla is a popular poet, human rights scholar, and vegan. He regularly publishes poems in American, Indian, and Israeli-based daily English newspapers and publication houses. He is the author of "Refugee Poems: Life in Exile, " Volume 1 (2025) , published by Wipf & Stock, USA, and "Untouchable Poems: Lived Experience with Hindu Religion, Ideology, and Society" (2024) , published by Wipf & Stock, USA, and the author of the globally acclaimed 'Compatibility of the Death Penalty with the Purpose of Criminal Punishment in Ethiopia' (2018) , published by The Age of Human Rights Journal. He studied short courses in history, heritage and memory & human rights and democratization at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2009 and 2010. He is living with his Ethiopian-Tigrayan wife, Selamawit Hailu Bezabih, and seven-year-old son, Saviour Suryaraju Mattimalla, in Regensburg, Germany, where his second son, Stanford Suryaraju Mattimalla, was killed at 37 weeks and 3 days of pregnancy by a neo-Nazi German gynecologist by forceful vaccination in 2023. His first baby was killed by a Hindu honor killing in India in 2010.