I Can'T Breathe

I cant breathe Because you do not hear My voice pleading. My heart bleeding A brother, a sister grieving For the loss of life That you have taken Not in mistake But in wanton evil I can't breathe When you should understand my plight. my suffering, my blight At your hands, your fists, your knees Choking, thumping then deceased In a swift act, another life is stolen And then the mourning I can't breathe When I am anchored to the bottom rung No hope of stepping forward Only way is down My future finished, before it began My destiny drifting in a cloud, In uncertainties In soliloquies of redemption songs. I can't breathe Of the heartache caused Newsflash!! another live lost. To the hatred and indiscretions Of an evil, dated in the past Of post colonial dominance Hoping, slavery will last I cant breathe That from the cradle to the grave You denied me Opportunities and growth, that defines me Brutality and pain you prescribed me An in the stench of my suffering you plied me With pain and hurt that riled me Not thinking of the consequences You start to squeeze holding my breath, my uttering, With my last breath, I plead. Mommy, hear my prayer He is killing with his knees Sinking to oblivion, with my last breath I yield, Let me breathe, Let me breathe.