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BLACK DEFORESTATION
Like innocent trees rooted and growing
In a black social forest, we’re being chopped
down by roving lumberjack officers of the law,
as if we were arboreal-like diseased black growths:-
Ironically, such deforestation is a view of jurisprudence
Along this forest trail, least traveled by the blind goddess
Of justice, as she forgivingly hugs guilt with minor reprimand:-
While it is true that natural nature has a way of self-redeeming,
Far be it, it seems, for human nature, to be of the same purview;
Particularly, when it has been demonstrated that today’s
Social-forest rangers are above and beyond the law.
How long must we allow the black forest of humanity
To be the victim of wildfire bigotry and its blazing bullets?
How long must we allow it to be a burned-out hued field of tears?
Indeed, how long will we just sit like frogs on lily pads of apathy?
Forgiveness is not to forget the offense and take care of the offender;
Rather, it must be about assuring that the offense never occurs again:-
Indeed, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, never solved anything;
But there is nothing wrong with soothing a pain, and prohibiting its recurrence:
Let us now be about the cancellation and prevention of Black Deforestation;
There is a time for everything, and it is now the time for us to be doing our thing:-