I Cant Breathe

I Can’t Breathe I can’t breathe The weight of a thousand elephants is bestowed upon me Narrative tracing back to history Black and blue The pride of the pit I’m swallowed into it The big elephant done left the room Division and ignorance The blind truth of our existence Your knee to my neck My face to concrete I can’t breath Others look on Minding their own business Hung upon a tree Blood to foliage , Drenching the earth I can’t breathe Out of breath Laid to rest On the street At the hands of police A spectacle for the best of appetites The pattern repeats Black bodies on display Like fresh supermarket meats Caricatured and forced into a mold A joke beyond belief Gassed and hosed down And chased by wolves Branded and seized like livestock by animalistic human beings Dignity exchanged for merchandise and profitability Bound to chains everywhere their feet may lead The spirit never dies even when commodified And silenced by the whip and lashed Marckincia Jean Free verse 07/05/20