Lynching Pandemic Echoes

Today, lynching has gone From roped necks and trees To piercing bullets and klan knees; Free from guilt and doing no wrong. Yet, the hued victims remain the Same; And seeking immediate justice seems Just insane; Today’s dead man walking, is surely A young or old black; There’s no shadow of doubt that normal Racist murder is back. Those blacks that the present pandemic pulsating virus Don’t infect and kill, Many—you can bet—roving racist cops and their peers Most surely will. No matter which perpetrator of the two will cause our Black families to grieve, Keloid memories will be echoes of those ghostly words, “I can’t breathe…” From many rains ago, it has been proven that with racism “[We all can’t]…just get along…” And while we wander racist injustice together, it also seems “Burn baby burn” has not gone.