Killing Her Own

KILLING HER OWN.

She carried him for months,
The pain and the suffering
All now dressed in new pants,
The commencements

Dumped in the street
A stranger picked and raised him.
Nursed by not his own,
Life isn’t a given.

Is this what our mothers have become?
Is this what the fiber of our ancestries have become?
Is this what we call freedom of choice?
Is this what we call civil rights?

Killing him for the crime he didn’t commit!

What happened to mother’s love?
That he was promised on conception.
Do you have to break him when your vows break?
Do you think you must dump him when his father disappears?
Do you think you have to destroy him when your heart dies?
Leveling your displeasure with his breath.

His lifeforce will haunt you to hell
His bones will bellow loud through the prison walls,
His innocence will echo through the temples
All the way to the  gates of heaven 
Until justice is found

Why killing him for the crime he didn’t commit?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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