And Justice For None
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD (THE REWRITE)
Children hidden against a darkened sky
A cup of river foaming at the mouth
Poles where heated days continue to rise
Pigmentation dictates shaded colours of tell tale lies
Blacks on our streets under broken white lines
Shadows of leaves against migrants stripped of bark
Women’s rights written on sheets with naked ink
Hired guns bought -streets with unrestricted laws
Voices yell putrid words -controlled by foreign hands
Fires rage -our Mother’s belly flat with nothing to bear
Suited Men swirl about with noxious airs
Walk blindly into an imaginary Sun longtime set
Sink into the plastic remnants of bottles drank
The dew on their skin stings like acid spilt
Breathing particles drawn with charcoal pencils lit
And I think to myself what a Trumped up World
08/27/2018
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