Back the Black and Blue
What do you do
when you're a black cop
at a Back The Blue protest
with a Black Lives Matter
counter-protest
in front of you,
to left and right,
and possibly pursuing your rear
and career?
Which direction
does your identity choose,
if not to feel troubled
by a false choice
either way?
Is there some platform,
strange principle,
peculiar position
among Mattering Political Black Lives
that you cannot have
a healthy vocation
while carrying a ballistic weapon
and continue being a Black Life
in good and valued standing?
Or, to Back my Blue,
must I succumb
to StraightWhitePatriarchal Privilege?
Are there any color boxes
still widely open
and deeply inviting?
Can I not aspire to become
a non-binary bound,
non-white,
ecofeminist for EarthRights
to health and safety
and peace
and restoring green justice?
Recognizing
and appreciating
only Earth as Master,
Mistress,
Goddess,
Sacred Eden.
Discarding old school memories
of enslaved custody of imprisoned eyes
and ears for hearing,
suppressing custody of healthy taste
and fragrantly smelled beauty,
of cooperative touch
and globally compassionate feeling,
Regarding green lives matter schools
and reschooled deep learning
full 20/20 ownership
of Black and Blue
and Green proud lives
for multicultural mediation.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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