who will help me
the poor black soul
that the world has abandoned
like lost mail they
did not return for?

& so i wait
& watch the world
day after day
get on with their lives
freely & unscathed
with the only ticket needed
their white skin
leaving mine
stamped invalid
& destined to turn
blood red
from brown

There's so much violence going on in the world right now that it makes me wonder where are we living.The world could do with some love.I wish people would do the following-
                  Inhale Love
                 **Exhale Hatred

"Oh say can you see,
By the dawn's early light,"

                     yes, they see

"What so proudly we hailed,
At the twilight's last gleaming?"

               our flag, ripped, tattered, there....

"Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,"

            the bombs, oh the bombs rain down

"O'er the ramparts we watched,
Were so gallantly streaming."

            still she was there, rugged, worn

"And thy rocket's red glare,
Thy bombs bursting in air,"

              on the roadsides, in the barracks


"Gave proof through thee night,
That our flag was still there."

            still there, they hadn't gotten her

"Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,"

                    so battered, still flying,
             colors not running, standing strong

"O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."*

                      she flies with the breaths
                   of the fallen who keep us free

Another Thermopylae to defend.
Our love's a battle we can't win.
And so I'll die a Spartan's death,
You'll leave me with out any breath.