A Lamentation - Day 3

I’m 47 but this tired I feel is 400 years old

Way too many years asserting our humanity

To have it still be disregarded.

Too much information for the willfully obtuse to claim ignorance

Way too many dead for way too many generations for it not to be purposeful.

This is not a happenstance

There is no glitch in the programming

This inequity is by design

This is genocide.

So, do you think I care if property is destroyed?

Why not burn down what we’ve built brick by brick

But have never been able to fully enjoy?

We just want a chance to live into our full humanity

And like Fannie Lou said,

“If we can’t have it, then you ain’t gon’ have it either.

They know what they’ve done to us.”