Best Poems Written by Lashanna Coleman

Walk with me

Walk with me now, will you?
I’ll even lend you 
my shoes
So you can see what it’s like in them.

Do you see what I see?
When you hurt my brothers and sisters
When you see my skin as a threat?

Do you feel how I feel?
When you push me into the concrete
When you put those, cold, metal chains on my wrist?

Do you smell what I smell?
The smell of your breath while you yell at me
The smell of the sweaty prison you put me in for no reason?

Do you taste what I taste?
The blood trickling down my nose into my mouth
The taste of hatred against my chocolate skin

Do you hear what I hear?
The sirens I hear while I’m in the back of your car
“I CAN’T BREATHE”
I bet you didn’t hear that did you?

Look at my shoes
they’re all worn out
Worn out from your constant hate against me
I was walking and now I’m running

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