Layla Riley-Hill Poet Free verse

What becomes of a world that lacks a black future

Sterilisation.
The ending of a bloodline 
The tree has now stopped growing 
Overshadowed by the other flourishing trees
Almost as if it had never existed

But that's what they wanted 
To eliminate. To exterminate. To eradicate.
A whole race 
It's why they lie with every smile 
It's why they feign care whilst they kill

They look young black women in their face
Whilst taking their right to reproduce
Leaving them unsure as to why they struggle with fertility
Leading them to ask the doctors if something is wrong with them
Being heartbroken by their blunt answer
'Yes.'
They gaslight us into believing we are the problem
Then add fuel to the fire if we question Their 'knowledge' - tell us 'doctors know best'
Their only solution is to get us sectioned 
When we notice a pattern
Of medical negligence against black women

Because at the end of the day
If a black woman was attacked by a bear 
With wounds all over her body 
They would claim she deserved it
Which is ironic 
Because black women are expected to solve everyone's problems 
Yet when we are not of use we become the problem

So they - 
Take and take and take?
But black women are the problem
Yet without us your entire empire would crumble 
Ending bloodlines 
The erasing our futures 
Just so you can dominate and become 
What? - 
The 'superior humans'

A flawed plan when the world was hand crafted by our blood soaked hands 
You call us jealous 
That we envy your whiteness
When in fact 
It was you who was jealous of our blackness 

Even going as far as to prevent us from meeting our future children
By blocking their access to a world we created
Stolen by you all because of envy

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