Respiration 2020
Cover your face.
Wash your hands.
Cover your voice.
Take care where you stand.
The world isn’t safe.
Boy, stay in your place.
Can’t take a knee
- unless it’s on me.
Too weary to cope
No peace; no hope
So much despair
Don’t trust the air
I CAN’T BREATHE!
More lying,
more crying
and too much dying
More shooting,
more looting and
own horn tooting,
Leaders just lurking
or under-mask smirking.
We aren’t working.
I, CAN’T BREATHE?
How will They learn
if you just came here to burn?
Stop all the violence, and
be done with the silence
It’s all gone berserk
but, MY lungs still work.
I CAN BREATHE.
So, I’ll breathe loudly;
I’ll breathe proudly.
Breathing for JUSTICE, not Just Us.
I’ll breathe knowing who must - US.
I’ll breathe with a chorus that can’t be silenced,
young and old;
timid and bold;
dark and light;
all breathing what’s right.
Breathing firey tongues of
history untold;
Breathing through tears for
the ones we can’t hold;
Breathing righteous love and true understanding
until with my last breath
when I am no longer standing
I’ll breathe release
while the chorus breathes
Hope and Peace
- - D Viera (June 2020)
Copyright © Di Viera | Year Posted 2020
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