[Poem-a-Week] Blood & Fears by S.A. Adounvo
Blood, tears Blood, tears Blood, no more tears There are no tears There are no tears There are only fears... Fear Fear for my loved ones Fear for myself If Sandra Bland lost her life Am I next? Should I just resign myself To the same fate Of Tamir Rice Of George Floyd Because I am Sandra and Breonna after all Though we are Years apart Miles apart We are one Their pain is my pain Their death is my death. Blood, tears Blood, tears Blood, no more tears There are no tears There are only fears There are only leers... Leers and fears Of Black bodies Like Atatiana Like Sandra But I am in no way better than them I am not smarter, I am not prettier, I am not less of an angry Black woman As if that term could ever encapsulate All that we Black woman have to be angry about As if it’s that easy. Blood, tears Blood, tears Blood, no more tears There are no tears There are only fears There are only leers There are only stares... Stares While I lay here bleeding Stares While I die by the hand of those sworn to protect me Stares, while you tell me “Oh, he shouldn’t have resisted arrest”, “He shouldn’t have been playing with a toy gun”, “He shouldn’t have been running”. Stares As another black body Becomes bloody By a system That was built For years, By bloody black bodies. Blood, tears Blood, tears Blood, no more tears We give you no more years Years Of pain Of blood Of death Years Of being told our lives don’t matter Our lives do matter Black lives matter.
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