when you are White
and you say,
All Lives Matter
just think how that sounds
when your color gives you
an innate platform
which speaks volumes, yet
my value is stall clawing
from underground
just think how that sounds
when “Black Lives Matter”
wasn’t any ‘other’ color denounced
just think how that sounds
when American History
has created a civilization above
its own created Native and Black
burial grounds
just think how that sounds
when you say it as a
response, as if to add clarity
while perpetrating parody
silencing Black Pleas, with your precious
privilege’s hurt feelings…please!
creating groups
as responses to other groups
doesn’t create solutions
it is cloaked division
masquerading as good intentions
Duh, All Lives Matter!
that’s why you didn’t have to
create a group before
to say which
but when it comes to this
life, and its experiences
the whole Globe reacted to
Black Lives Matter…
it’s second time round
I wonder why?…
obviously someone’s value
must not be as obvious
therefore, attention and a call
to awareness was needed
so when your response
to someone else’s hurt is
“I hurt too…”
well, I don’t have to tell you
‘cuz deep down
you should know how that sounds
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