We now desire less
Eating beyond gluttony
People are starving?

a cold winter blast
two songbirds boldly took flight
eloquent silence

bullets pierce the night
another black father is stopped
fall is in the air

Surfing is playful
When there's a tide
But it's awfully painful
When waves have died
And what of the poet
Who was filled with rhyme
Whose verse is now crippled
By a heart that pines
Torn is a poet who knows
Not when to share
Forlorn is his heart
Of emotions laid bare

Teeth bared
Jaws clenched
Hammer cocked
Yet another
Nailed
Your coffin
Shrouded
In darkness
Sealing you
From bigotry
Disguised
In self justified
Ineloquent
Patriotism
RIP dear brothers
Your Lives Matter!

white is pure, dark not
so say the fairytales
we glare - d i v i d e d

i sleep
wide eyed
in fear of letting go
of my fears
and flying
away




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