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She did everything she could And yet somehow it wasn't enough She did everything right Yet she still lost the fight From the very first moment She was born She was was Stripped of her voice There were complications with her mum But before they could help she was gone Her father was falsely imprisoned The child was silent But there was a faint heartbeat A glimmer of hope For the daughter As her cries echoed across the hospital She'd been trapped in a box An incubator For most of her life the hospital was her home The doctors and nurses became her family making sure she wasn't alone But when she was older The walls spoke to her With each crack in the wall The truth Of her mother's death began to unfold The very same people who she called family were the ones who made her an orphan She was never taught the rules of survival She was surrounded by all white doctors Her parents were gone She felt like she'd been failed by the system Those around never helped with hair And when she would try they would stop and stare Behind Her back they'd call her a nightmare They thought she could not hear but She knew What they meant by a comment like that From then on she swore they would never see her crack She had realised that she was black In that moment her innocence had left something she knew she'd never get back She had noticed she was the only black person in the ward She knew she was hated When she was constantly ignored While all of the others got continous support But when she was in pain Their eyes filled with disdain Calling her dramatic Gaslighting her health making her feel pathetic In moments like this she wanted her mother It killed her knowing that they were the ones who murdered her She wished she could have someone to love her She was the only one without a mother In this hospital she felt like a prisoner Her mental health began to crumble When she opened up They told her she was being a problem That others had bigger struggles By the age of twenty Her health had worsened She begged For help but nobody had listened And one random night her body had succumbed Her cause of death, Racism
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