Never Asked

He never asked to be your reason
she never asked to be your outcry,
their bodies laying cold on the cement
their bodies sketched by the same outline,
xenophobia, bigotry
religious beliefs, hypocrisy
gender bias, topography beef
racism, tribalism, classism, and hidden hate we speak..tweet!
he was black and he said he can’t breath
he was black and he said don’t shoot me
she was white and she stood up for humankind
she was white and got ran over by her own kind
my religion never told me to hate you
I’m responsible for what I say and do
he went and shot up a church group
in court he was told “we forgive you”
black mayor wins gubernatorial
white counterpart said we shouldn’t ‘monkey’ this up… in a live news interview, a new fuse used, to spew, hate food in internet editorials
they never asked!
but silence is complicit because of America’s conflicted past