White Lies Matter

What’s a black life anyway

An unimportant matter

Too small for anybody who is somebody to care

Minute.

That we would have the audacity to merely exist

How pompous to think that anybody who’s a black body could matter

White lies ricocheting off the lips of

Wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing

Piercing through the flesh of black bodies who dared to be somebody

White lies uttered to protect and serve those who matter

At whose expense?

Who will foot the bill for these white lies?

I’ll cover the tab.

Blood splattered across bronze

Another black sheep sacrificed on the altar of white lies

An offering.

A steep price to pay for the debt of white lies

Black lies don’t exist

Only black truths

Hard realities and shattered dreams

Every white lie driving me deeper into a reality where white lies matter but black lives don’t