Dying

DYING

BLAK people are dying...

In the jails, on the streets, in the hospitals

In the jungles of Africa

We are dying...

We are dying from alcohol poisoning

drug abuse, crack,caffeine, tobacco

And bad nutrition...

Not to mention Birth controlled, coat hanger

Prescribed abortions and Planned parenthood clinics

We are dying...

I am dying...you are dying...blaks are dying

From the poor health care

and systematic annihilation diseases...

We are dying...

They have a million and one ways to kill us

And come up with a thousand new ways each year

They’ve even taught us how to kill ourselves

So, We are killing ourselves...

I am dying...you are dying

you are killing me...I am killing you

You are killing you...and i am killing me too

They are killing us...everybody is killing us

I want to live...don’t you want to live ?

stop killing us...let’s stop killing us

Stop the killing... and by any means necessary

Let’s live...

By: Tony B. Conscious

Taken from the poetry book "Diary Of A Blackman" (2000)