Tag: BLM

Give me free
No other people
Have seen such travesty
Experienced
Every single layer of slavery
Even
Being hunted
While we are free

Give me free
Could I have but one guarantee
Just want to know
What it’s like
To walk and live free
To have every opportunity
Where skin color is not a crime

Give me free
Without a single chain
No fences in sight
I was still your slave
Now that I want to be free
Already proven
Commitment to humanity
Why do you desire superiority?

Give me free
Allow love to propagate
Seeing every eventuality
Recognizing our destined fate
Socially acceptable to destroy me
You’ll keep pushing
Until you are no longer free!

Each day feels more draining
That negativity holding onto me
Is easier to release
Whenever it is raining
Staring into a cloudy sky
Life graciously passing me by
The nerve of me
Introducing children to this
My only sanity
I know they will see a future
My eyes will never see
All of the uncertainty
Difficult to follow
Left me hollow

Keeping the same song on repeat
Not for entertainment
Just need it for consistency
That nagging feeling
Seeing everything come to reality
That I have always been feeling
Although I have seen people
Hurrying about
Until those shots rang out
Dead bodies falling
Unbraced to the ground
Seen people struggling
Just to get free
In all those other deaths
I never saw me
What happened to that man
Somehow became an Apollo
Left me hollow

Frozen in this fraction of time
Lack the capacity and the tools
To just unwind
To just empty everything in me
To just breathe in a succinct fashion
Ironically traumatized with each breath
Yet I am the one still able to breathe
Yet leaving in a state of desperate misery
Yet knowing it ain’t all about me
Being supportive of the seeds development
Watching with pride without any hesitation
Doing my best not to interfere
Cause the reality is very clear
I couldn’t fix not one bit of it
I can say I tried, but did I really
Claim to be willing to do a lot things
But I still have that slave name
Still haven’t given every sacrifice
Still here waiting for someone else
This emptiness is hard to swallow
Left me hollow

Then I look up to my surprise
The eldest seed is leading things
Barely old enough to drive
But easily enters situations
Without a fear for himself
The constant protector
With a gentle touch
Without those seeds
I would be lost in this world
The guilt leaving me
That I brought them into this world
Knowing that their achievements
Will far surpass my own
I will be able to leave this Earth in peace
With the gratitude
That I will leave completely empty
As they take over and excel
Where I had no remedy
Their galvanizing aptitudes
So easy to follow
Left me hollow

I see things differently
The Past
The Present
The Future
They are all the same to me
Feeling them simultaneously
Living three lives with each breath
And I can’t Breathe

Remembering everything that was done
Seeing the travesty
So much travesty
We were devastated
Yet claiming victory
Left in udder defeat
I wasn’t a witness
But the pictures
The pictures
Pictures
Conveyed something deep to me
Skin color matters to everyone
It’s the only way you know
Who to isolate
How else would you investigate
Violence is not randomly distributed
Targeted specifically
Perpetuating stereotypes
Those claiming superiority
Those maintaining democracy
That same democracy
Picture of hypocrisy

I see things differently
The Past
The Present
The Future
They are all the same to me
Feeling them simultaneously
Living three lives with each breath
And I can’t Breathe

Looking deep into this mirror
Surrounding shadows
Keeping things in perspective
I am all that I am
It is only because of the history
That was embedded within me
Living today
Thinking repeatedly
Remembering those pictures
Haunting images
Blackened body blackened
Smoldering upon that cross
Name, wisdom, love
Were all lost
Yet these men stood above
Showing exactly who they were
Keep thinking presently
Is that any different
Because the executions
They keep happening
Tearful eyes
Attempting to wash my sight
Even blurred so many concerns
Not even permitted to fight
Riding down darken roads
Lighted up, intermittent siren
Recognizing that blinding light
Right at my rear view mirrors
Intentionally to disorientate me
Protect and to Serve
The Hypocrisy

I see things differently
The Past
The Present
The Future
They are all the same to me
Feeling them simultaneously
Living three lives with each breath
And I can’t Breathe

Don’t even need to close my eyes
Dreaming openly
Allowing the future to imagine me
Witnessing things I never see
Walking past people innocently
No one clutching valuables
Doors remain unlocked
People ordering pizza
Instead of calling cops
Looking blindly
With all kinds of disbelief
This single opportunity
allowed to be free
Jails resurrected as schools
Not a single child hungry
Overwhelmed with quality food
Encouraged to pursue
All walks of life
Concentrated and Focused
Planning a full life
Walking in stores
Looking over my shoulder
No one looking back at me
Rising to a higher plain
Nothing feels the same
Even believed I was free
Thought I could end slavery
Thought I could change my last name
Freedom ain’t free
The hypocrisy