Antionette Writes

NINE

Nine months

Felt like a lifetime 

Wanting to hold you

See your beautiful face

Nine bullets

Took you away

Now holding your body riddled with bullets

Why you

Over and over again

I ask

Didn’t want this for you

Didn’t see it coming

They’ll say your name 

For justice for you

Mommas will cry in the streets

and weep and weep and weep 

Like I did you

Blood spilled for... what

My blood of your blood

Painting the streets 

Wasn’t slavery enough

Blood shed their too

Can’t go back

Won’t go back 

Got to go forward 

To show them we will live

Not die by their hands

Not no more

For I waited nine months to see you

And they used nine bullets

To take you.