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Systemic Poems - Poems about Systemic

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

Premium MemberPeaceFull 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

Premium MemberSystemic 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

Premium MemberNonViolent 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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