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Time Encapsulated Pain


My melanin bar code pain
feels like a time encapsulated link chain
The future and the past
are excruciatingly one and the same
And this bleak present
is probable cause tense — 
Just being black in America
is a police cruiser death sentence

So why should son of Kunta Kinte I
really want to make America great again
When the year of Martin Luther King’s assassination
is what I’m dark side of the moon living in

I feel the same degradation
spat upon my mother
The ‘polite society’ rejection
by an Ivory seat ruler

I feel the same humiliation
heaped on my father
Hateful words of oppression
be trumpeted louder

Pharaoh siren tones heard 
echoing thru 
each highway generation

So why should stolen heritage I
truly want to make America great again
When the year of Emmitt Till strange harvest justice
is what I’m reviled eclipse skin living in

Ain’t no rainbow kind,
equality sunshine
in this arrested development place
Penitentiary cargo hold no!

As the Middle Passage tears of grief,
tick-tock beggarly,
‘I can’t breathe’ overflow

And I know 
this time encapsulated pain I feel 
will soon fade to black

But, this hurtful truth will still remain,
as long as
human traffic violations stays the same

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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Date: 6/9/2020 11:49:00 AM
Hey Freddie - I thought of you this year. Very glad you're there.
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Date: 6/3/2020 8:42:00 PM
Yes Freddie, some look upon the law as a detour sign: it slows them down, but they always find a way around. Blaise Pascal once wrote, "Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny." Fair well my friend.
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Date: 5/31/2020 11:21:00 PM
A heartfelt write, Freddie... And the pain will always be there... For me too, whenever the saliva-laden words, 'Dirty Jew,' hit me square in the face... And my people are attacked and murdered mercilessly in Israel, every day... Yet history tells me to toughen up and bear it, as IT WILL NEVER CHANGE. You can't force anyone to love you. You can't. I can't. Nobody can. And so, brother, we bear the pain and bury it deep within --- and go about our lives showing them... Joy and Light, gw
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Date: 5/31/2020 1:20:00 PM
You are right my fri end... Thing will never change, especially as many still try to cause an apartheid system...
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