The missing posters that go missing
Streets littered with white paper sheets
Printed with the ink of black missing kids
Floating through the air desperate to find somebody who cares
Empty are the streets, just like their parents home
Awaiting the day they'll be reunited with their beloved children
Authorities won't listen
Not one eye lid batted
They look the black parents in the eye feeling joy
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Categories:
systemic, corruption, discrimination, power, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Modern day slavery
The world drowns us in problems
Then expects us to breathe solutions
In a society that demands whispers of lullabies rocking them to sleep
Whilst we deal with the havoc they wreak
Safe in the silence of their homes
Black women have to deal with the chaos outside alone
The white man's mess becomes the black persons job
Our
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Categories:
systemic, discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Drowning in a sea of their hate
Expectations
No rest
No time to breathe
A weight on your chest
Nothing less than excellence
Even that's not enough
A world that tells black people
That even if you follow the rules
You are still not good enough
Because as long as your black
They will always have the last laugh
In a world that preaches equality
It sure is a hypocrite
From
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Categories:
systemic, discrimination, hate, ocean, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
The rage of a tired black woman
Rage.
Fury.
A constant burning anger.
A rage stemmed from generations of those who have come before me
An inheritance we have the right to own
Something passed through each black child born
One that clings to our skin and bones
A communal experience we share alone
Every time a black child comes home from school
Fallen tears from racial slurs
Another wave of
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Categories:
systemic, anger, discrimination, mental health,
Form: Free verse
A call for the oppressors downfall
Comfort wrapped in a blanket of security
Never fearing the chance of brutality
Only a freedom granted to those with fair skin
Greeted by the warmth of idiocy
Building a racist system of legacy
With followers who exhibit stupidity
But useful in killing democracy
To continue their self fulfilling prophecy
Of forced superiority
A politicians smile brings a darkness
Poisonous
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Categories:
systemic, body, discrimination, political, power,
Form: Free verse
The strength we embody
They told us our skin meant exile
That our joy would be put on trial
Because it brings rain
But how can they hate the rain when it nourishes the ground we walk on
The same ground that grows the food we need to survive
They want us to cower in the face of their Whiteness
To bow down to their
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Categories:
systemic, discrimination, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Black joy vs the world
They hate us not because we’re bad but because we are everything they cannot be
Because while they stew in their own misery
Formed from their own jealousy
We live life fully
Because that’s the beauty of Black people
We create joy where joy has been locked out
Then try to hide it through false superiority
Whilst trying to convince the
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Categories:
systemic, beauty, discrimination, joy, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Can happily ever after exist?
Can happily ever after truly ever exist
Where we live in a world that looks like this
Where we live in a society that favours division
Because how can one truly be happy
In a world that excludes and is racist
How can one have hope this will happen
Especially when you're black It's not something we get
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Categories:
systemic, discrimination, fantasy, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
You cannot silence, what demands to be heard
Not only did they colonise land
They colonised history too
They decided to make history a blank canvas
To start anew
By painting over the colour in white paint
Hiding the accomplishments of tge black race
They say slavery was in the past
We need to move on
But continously teach us about the holocaust
And when a black
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Categories:
systemic, discrimination, history, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
Failing justice 101
You claim that we live in a just society
One where law comforts the innocent
And justice punishes the victim
But that's not true is it?
When in reality it's the opposite of that
Especially when you are black
For us We live in an alternate reality
Where this doesn't happen
Where we the innocent are falsely imprisoned
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Categories:
systemic, discrimination, metaphor, mirror, political,
Form: Free verse
You demand our forgiveness But we say hell no
They claimed they freed us
But if chains instead of whips
Was your idea of freedom
We'd rather be dead
At least then we wouldn't have to deal with your racism
All you did was remove the sun
Put is in solitary confinement
Psychologically tortured us
If this is your idea of an apology
We'd hate to see the solution
Was
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Categories:
systemic, corruption, forgiveness, prejudice, race,
Form: Free verse
When black meets betrayal
She did everything she could
And yet somehow it wasn't enough
She did everything right
Yet she still lost the fight
From the very first moment She was born
She was was Stripped of her voice
There were complications with her mum
But before they could help she was gone
Her father was falsely imprisoned
The child was silent
But there was
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Categories:
systemic, betrayal, discrimination, innocence, mother
Form: Free verse
PeaceFull MusEcology
Radically erroneous monotheists
have mistakenly substituted
our co-infested
co-operative
co-invested
co-empathic pantheistic HolySpirit's
naturally healthy
resonant EarthTribal bodhisattva powers
of polyculturing communion love and peace
for messianically monoculturing luster
and loneliness
unnaturally unhealthy
irreligiously irritating dissonance
degeneratively devilish
and idolatrous
and disrapturously ecocidal
false-god demonic
anthro-supremacist power
Struggling to survive
against Othered
fundamentally erroneous monotheists.
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Categories:
systemic, health, integrity, lost love,
Form: Political Verse
Systemic alteration' breakdown required
I salute those (about to die??) Figuratively at least.! The
People..How shall I best describe them.? The middle to
Top level bankers..Hedge fund managers..Pension fund
Ceo's you know stockmarket traders at the middle to upper
End.' Who are going to be nutralised.' Monatarily wise.!! Yet
Who know so much, as such..! Maybe enough to save many' and their own skins..If
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Categories:
systemic, appreciation, assonance, character,
Form: Free verse
NonViolent Musicians
When he speaks
transparently
he feels co-passionate
as long as s/he appears
to vulnerably listen
Without Me v We risks
of retributive judgment,
body shaming
and mind blaming,
when he aims
to restore healthy cultures
and wealthy climates of peace
through win/win reassessment
Which may be why
music feels safer to sing
resonantly
when compassionate audiences dance
engaging pleasure's peak resilience
Co-empathic brilliance
of CommonSensed communion rituals
Wealth-enlightened minds
empowering health-embodied love stories
NaturalRoot/SpiritualCrown
wisdom recirculations
as old
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Categories:
systemic, anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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