100 Years of hate and violence against Black and Brown people, and once again, the Government greenlights the cruel, grotesque, illegal and inhumane actions.
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Black Hawk Helicopters in Chicago’s night sky;
BiPlanes dropping turpentine bombs,
Incinerating Greenwood, Tulsa.
Black families die.
Masked Men rappelling down, past one bedroom,
Kicking in windows of another, at random,
Ransacking, attacking
Coming for my mother, my mother, my mother…
Flash bombs, today’s turpentine torches,
Ignite terror in wide-eyed babies
Screaming for their mamas;
Clothing ripped from their tiny bodies;
Doll-like hands shackled with plastic ties
Made for tying trash bags together.
White-hot violence in the night,
Greenlighted by White authorities, out of sight;
Breaking laws, knocking down doors,
Tossing any nightshirts they find to the floor;
Some, still filled with the fragile bodies wearing them.
Night errors, night terrors come to life;
No Badges, no hearts, no conscience,
Only cruelty, cutting dark skin, like a knife.
Beyond the threatening faces these ghastly ghouls
Imagine they see through the slots in their mirror-faced shrouds;
They never ask if the demons they hunt are, instead,
The reflections of their own lost souls;
Hate & fear haunting them through each hole
In their masks and what once was their humanity,
Now dead.