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
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