Suicide Black African American Poems

Death 
Is 
Worst
Than
Life...

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What fills your goals, son?

I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...

If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a...

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I'm tired of barely surviving
It shouldn't be this hard to want to live
My thoughts have been killing me slowly since I was twelve 
And they...

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If you find my lifeless body hanging from a tree,
Know that I have too much to live for,
I am not a fruit that easily grows...

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Trauma.....
Always there like a shadow 
looming and haunting
It be monster in closet
Be spook that sits by a door
It sticks.... 
thick and solid like tar and...

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You 
descended on me
from the stars above
appearing out of visions 
overwhelming my still soul with your self 
as door by door opened on life’s passions
to...

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Father’s Day is like a day of mourning
A day of the dead
Where young men who committed suicide
Come out of the graves to be with their...

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OD to dose after dose

white powder all over clothes

a druggy dream

dying in your sleep but you cant scream

so many drugs that pollute the scene

have to...

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It twas a dark and disconsolate night
I walked lonesome alleys, as I clenched myself tight
It was very cold that night, there was no single light
The...

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Truce, written by Poet Angela Khristin Brown

If I were to tell you
 what someone told me, 
I might miss a detail or two.
I hold inside...

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By Ezar

They got me on intense probation like I am a animal 
So I guess I will eat up wealth like a cannibal
You didn't slow...

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Of all things sentimental.
She came through the door wearing a suit of armor.
The door closed behind her with a rattle and tick of swaying arms.
With...

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Prisoner: In (W)hole

In mystic maze of dungeon
life etches pain
deep in the womb of mind.

Light taunts the darkness.
Seeking vision, sanity lurks
in the closing twilight of fear.

Death...

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Stifled cries
No concern for the black man until the black man dies
Images of black and blue flash before my eyes
How many times?
Unprotected our men go...

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Oscar`s 

Oscar night
Red carpet and 
Clammy armpits 
Valium
Skeletal women 
Gasping for a ***
To smoke in public
Is social suicide 
Wearing the latest 
State of the art...

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