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Rise Up For Me

RISE UP FOR ME!!!

I never hear your laughter
No matter the depth of my plea
Your smile, your voice, your presence
Forever absent from my new reality!

Each day, I search for meaning
As to why you are gone
My questions never answered
Every minute, empty and long

Endless tears won't change a thing
I know because I've cried
Endless words won't bring you JUSTICE
I know because I've tried

No accountability, for my child's death?
Death by cop, the majority disagree.
Broken families, Stolen lives
They kill at will, we are no longer free!

Even if a jury finds them guilty
Very few years they will see
When they intentionally kill our children?
Exactly, why we respect taking a knee!

We visit our children at their grave
The pain we cannot flee
When cops kill at will, we hear our kids say, RISE UP FOR ME

Copyright © Brandy Rogers | Year Posted 2019



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The day you died, I was fully grown
A proud parent, with children of my own

All of me lost you, all of me cry
But 5 year old me, keeps asking "why"

That sweet little girl, you tucked in every night

That six year old, you taught to ride a bike

That eleven year old, you waved off to camp

That excited fourteen year old, getting dressed for the dance

That sixteen year old, that just learned to drive

That twenty year old, who lost her first child

The mother version of me is terrified
That you are not by my side

The grown me hurts, with nowhere to hide                                                     
It's not just me who lost you, but every girl I am inside

Copyright © Brandy Rogers | Year Posted 2017


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