In Response to Burning Houses

I don’t want to

post no more

protest poetry

in response to

slain captives of this land.

No amount of

angry rhetoric

will ever bring back

those big smiles

of our brothers and sisters,

we were forced to

lay to rest.

Don’t want no more

IG memes or hash-tags

as we become

arm-chair revolutionaries

with our

push button politics

protesting crooked policies

of police who hold the power.

Malcolm told us

about burning houses

yet we refused to listen;

so now we

suffer the consequences

in flames.

As my condolences

go out to families,

I ask,

Where is the justice

in this experiment

called integration?

Where is the justice

in this experiment

called america?

There is no justice

under

body cams

or

cell phone cams

or

dashboard cams

because

lady liberty is blind,

when it comes to

Black folk.