Thursday, July 7, 2016

Blood, Death and Blackness

Blood, Death and Blackness
I see all around me
Gory phantasms that can't be real
Dead eyes, open mouths
Wounded bodies in pain

Black children crying
as Black mother's read from scripts
written by a history of violence
against Black Women
Through the murder of their children

Graves dug open
to receive Black bodies whose
flesh was ripped open for
no apparent reason other than
it was Black flesh

Blackness so black that all
they see is black but they
don't see the red that we see
when we see the blood
another Dead Black person

They shoot, we die
They investigate, we cry
We burn and they turn
our pain against us as
They live, we don't

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