Because, #365 poems (Hash Tag Poetry)

Because through a pandemic, we write. Because I am Black, we
write.  Because there are riots, or protests, and unsatisfied, and
unsafe feelings, we write.  Because we never solved the issue of the
color line last century, we write.  Because it is a part of me, because
it doesn't stop, because of hash-tags, because of technology, because my
voice deserves to be heard, because I want my seeds to know, because I
have books to sell, we write.  Because it is 9:59pm on a Monday night,
and this was on the to do list.

And because this is a video that speaks.