'fare ye well' kind friends
Pulses set to flashing siren beats
festering resentments fuelling divisive fears
parent’s wincing at its whispered mention
praying: their offspring’s heed every caution
uniform blues stealthily cruising
decrepit dreams of equality’s remnant mappings
election’s, pledged targeted patrolling
sprouting profiling’s: modern-day trappings.
Morning’s decimation of consequence, protect & serve
badges; masking murderers misfiring malevolence.
Victim’s kin suffocate, beneath dawn’s ill-fated sunbeams
chalk outlines of skin-color & age profiles: as baiting headlines
streets overflowing with volcanic emotions
reactionary outcries quietened by hollow placations
producing fruitless trials at - a - snail’s, pace
or anger-quashing sackings: as surface level solutions.
Lawrence and Maya, restless
cageless birds – motionless, despairing
at their grave marked: nests…
© L. B. Mek
December 2017
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- Comment from author about the poem: Although its intensions remain laudable, February's '28 days' can barely cover 2.8% of USA's - portion of abbreviated: 'black history'... (Paul Lawrence Dunbar's: 'Sympathy') https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-9576 (Maya Angelou's: 'I know why the Caged Bird sings') https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-1193
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Very true and profound words Mek, especially that last stanza.
Andy
thank you Andy, always appreciate your empathetic support of my feeble scribbles my friend
So well written, Mek!
thank you! very kind Fred
... made me wince, more than once, I can tell ya .......
well let me tell ya: that's your badge of empathy! dear poet..
we are the choices we inherit and the choices we've made, thankfully, we have the choices that await, to better our individual legacy's and that, makes all the difference: to the value of each gifted breath..
thanks for taking time to comment and support my friend
These words hit deep. I love your style of writing
such a kind gesture, to searchingly read through my older scribbles
and insure you find a work to connect with, I'm humbled..
thank you for taking the time to comment and support
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