So I typically refrain from posting literary reactions to certain situations until I am properly informed. While I appreciate the immediate emotional reaction of the country to recent current events, as an African American women, who may one day be a mother of an African American male, it frightens me to know that some of us are only down for the cause for now...And the rest of us will never be down for the cause unless it hits us right in the face. So what do you do? And that is the question that has been baffling me for days. Solution unknown...
I have great pain in my heart and tears pour from my spirit for the individuals who have lost and will continue to lose loved ones to senseless acts and abuse of power. The pain of loss in the families of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin and a host of others not televised is something they will have to endure for a lifetime. And for them, and potentially for me #icantbreathe. I ask God to order my steps and give me insight to how I should assist in any way with developing a solution for a remedy for the misconception and misunderstanding of the message, and while it is true there is no peace where there is injustice, the flaws of the legal system are at the fault of the nation for not taking the freedom to vote and educate ourselves seriously. We are the change that we seek, but we have to be about the change more than just in death situations. We have to want to build the foundation for justice in our individual goals and dreams. Too often we get a glimpse of one side of what life is like in the eyes of the celebrities we deem "iconic" and exhaust ourselves modeling our efforts on trying to be at the top and look down. Inferiority is a state we impose on ourselves. Inferiority is a state that we have control of eliminating.
I can't breathe
For the lives loss to injustice
For the peril sustained
I have great pain in my heart and tears pour from my spirit for the individuals who have lost and will continue to lose loved ones to senseless acts and abuse of power. The pain of loss in the families of Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin and a host of others not televised is something they will have to endure for a lifetime. And for them, and potentially for me #icantbreathe. I ask God to order my steps and give me insight to how I should assist in any way with developing a solution for a remedy for the misconception and misunderstanding of the message, and while it is true there is no peace where there is injustice, the flaws of the legal system are at the fault of the nation for not taking the freedom to vote and educate ourselves seriously. We are the change that we seek, but we have to be about the change more than just in death situations. We have to want to build the foundation for justice in our individual goals and dreams. Too often we get a glimpse of one side of what life is like in the eyes of the celebrities we deem "iconic" and exhaust ourselves modeling our efforts on trying to be at the top and look down. Inferiority is a state we impose on ourselves. Inferiority is a state that we have control of eliminating.
I can't breathe
For the lives loss to injustice
For the peril sustained
No peace
Yet we seek
Uniformity
Protest
When progress
Is held in the actions of us
The fight for communal growth
Prosperity
We are the key
We are the key
We
Us
You
Me
And until we understand
Our actions effect everyone
Or someone
At given points in time
We won't
Get the message
So for you
For them
And for me
I can't breathe
Until consciousness dwells
In the hearts and minds
Of the individuals injustice finds
And the goal
Is universal
People
Who recognize the power
To change
Encourages
Justice
For us
One day
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