Black Bodies

POW! POW! POW!

A black body hits the concrete

The concrete stained with blood

Red stripes represent freedom

Black bodies, black children, black slaves

Fill those red lines, blood dripping

Young children dropping like flies

Black clothes, black bodies, black bullet wounds

Hands up don’t shoot!

Words sound like a threat

Black skin a threat

Black history a threat

Black Intelligence a threat

Black kids playing (displayed as) a threat

Black mothers a threat

POW! POW! POW!

Another gunshot to the chest

Another child without a father

Another black mother crying

Black thugs, black caskets, black blood 

 

This poem is about: 
My community
My country
Our world

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