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I've seen blood dripping from the willows. Seen it rolling in drops down the cheek of a young girl, not long in her adolescence. The confusion was the worst part. She didn't know why she was dying. Alone. The ****** grass beneath a lost friend of comfort. But the white man knew. As he pulled up. his trousers, a savage grin on his face as he rubbed her agony over and over... She lays. Fragile. A heart now gone. A beautiful life now stolen. The sun sets as the man walks off. He is thinking about his wife and kids. His other thought is how he put just another slave where she belonged. A butterfly glides through the willows today. It floats and lands on the outstretched hand of a dead girl. It looks towards her face. Another river running red. Another of God's master works removed from life's rhythm.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM UTC
They called racism a work of art
I've seen blood dripping from the willows. Seen it rolling in drops down the cheek of a young girl, not long in her adolescence. The confusion was the worst part. She didn't know why she was dying. Alone. The ****** grass beneath a lost friend of comfort. But the white man knew. As he pulled up. his trousers, a savage grin on his face as he rubbed her agony over and over... She lays. Fragile. A heart now gone. A beautiful life now stolen. The sun sets as the man walks off. He is thinking about his wife and kids. His other thought is how he put just another slave where she belonged. A butterfly glides through the willows today. It floats and lands on the outstretched hand of a dead girl. It looks towards her face. Another river running red. Another of God's master works removed from life's rhythm.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 11:17 PM UTC
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