Drowning in today’s
systemic racist flood
my teary eyes bleed life’s
flowing black blood
and my hued nose struggles
daily to breathe the fueling air
my black lungs seek to receive.
Oh God may not the last
ringing echo my deafening
ears will hear be my heavenly mother’s
crying words: Come baby; mommy’s here.
Pray tell my death will not fade into a lost
scared memory of unjust deferment because
the found guilty of my breathless demise
was able to choose a 5th amendment jurisprudent
ploy to further delay the liberation of justice.