Best I Cant Breathe Poems

I can'T breathe

John Vorster Square
Steve "Bantu" Biko 

Many a freedom fighter

Paid the ultimate price and
died in police custody

But all poor

George Floyd

Seemed to be fighting for

Was

AIR

The right to Breathe

Not to become a Martyr

For any person be he black or white


For Richard Lamoureux
I can'T breath
Poetrysoup Contest
8th June...

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I look at you and I can't breathe
I dont understand the way you effect me
I'm always feeling an aching need to please you
 or see your smile
I cant believe that its all over so soon
It brings tears to my eyes to know that 
 these...

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I Can’t Breathe


I can’t breathe 
The weight of a thousand elephants is bestowed upon me 
Narrative tracing back to history 

Black and blue 
The pride of the pit 
I’m swallowed into it

The big elephant done left the room
Division and ignorance 
The blind truth of our...

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Good morning
Hood morning
Never a good morning in the hood but let's discuss the mourning.
Im talking tear shed cross on a sidestreet, oh he knows
Black boy knows
Black boy morns
Black boy says good morning to his mommy before he leaves for school
Black boy walks, walking dead
Black boy...

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You hate her 
Because you don't .
Sing, 
Let me hear.
Release your fists 
hold onto me 
I'll guide us to somewhere 
We can breathe....

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I think of you with every breath I take.

My every breath is a thought of you.

  . . . and it’s not the air everywhere,


It’s you I breathe; it’s You....

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