“Black Lives Matter”

We have given them

pathways into our

pathetic existence

we’d become the

pandemic welfare

and healthcare’s

crisis

an experience

a callous experiment

long after “Tuskegee”

Hatred like Wildfires

in California

overdoses of heroin

dirty needles and

corruption

yesterday, today, and

tomorrow?

correct us if

we’re wrong,

but judgment day

seems like it’s

here to stay,

“if we may ask,

What have we done

so wrong

“our voices”

go unheard?”

We’ve given them

a way into our demise

through rhythm and

rhymes

the messages can’t

be all lies

Let Privilege tell it

it’s justified by

loopholes and law

an imbalance of

divinity and royalty

the textbooks sell it

mirrors for tell it

horrors reflect it

like a sour fortune

bitter the chastening rod

bleach stains hide it

the truth of

crimson blood

a scorching war

memories on

the leaves of

southern leaves

Heaven is weary

and He’ll cries rises

echoing the toxic

ashes of history

Sulfur mixed with

the violent violation

tear gas and political

compartmentalization

defect infections within

a nation

anthropology’s definition

and categories

Niggers, Coloreds, Negros,

Nigggahs,

archeological factors

we were once a

Royal Priesthood

Sublime even

Their way in

wasn’t forced, but

welcomed by

beats and lyrics

horrible storms

and stories

via airwaves

robbed of humanity

because we’ve been

touched by the sun

direct decent defendants

of Son of Man

God evenly placed

in our D.N.A.

Yet we allow

dissension and division

by class and isms

we made Harlem and

Atlanta a Mecca

remnants of

“The Black Renaissance

stories of Struggles’ Pain

Painting, Rapping, Dancing,

Drumming, photographing,

Singing, Preaching, Teaching,

Writing, Art out Loud

stories of Negritude

being invisible like

the air

“We Can’t Breathe”

We Can’t Breathe”

We Can’t Breathe”

Can’t explain the

hate away

We gave them real eyes

while the prize is Freedom

“Oh Freedom Coming

Oh Freedom Coming

Oh Freedom Coming”

Martyrs we became

sacrificed brutally

Crucified like

“Christ”

for Dignity

and Human Rights

Human Rights

God Given Rights

We gave them a way in

B.L.M.

“They call it

Black Lives Matter”

Black isn’t absent from Light

Aren’t Lives are Sacred?

Matter is physical

not invisible

Calling to Firm Form

the forecast and foresight

of what’s right

Injustice by light

and by night

is abhorrent in

God’s line of

Sight

We all must face

one another

ask for might

to do what’s right

Is that Alright????

“Black Lives Matter”

By Kevin Guru 2020