I can't breathe
Foot on my neck
Help me, I can't breathe
Let me call my mama
I need to talk to my family before you rip life away from me
Down on my knees
Face on the concrete
It's an internal bleed
My heart can't take it
All this pressure on me
I feel as if I've been wearing it on my sleeve
I can feel it's beat fading away from me
Fast, fast, and fastly
What can I do but cry out my numbness as my rights are stripped from me clean
It's all poverty and injustice I see
No one is tending to the the cries escaping my lips, scattering
Relapsing, this judgment is fogging up my brain
It's a reiteration of my life long excruciating pain
Pain falling on deaf ears, the feeling's the name of the game
It all feels the same
No peace
As I'm going insane
You see a black hoodie
Or did you confuse it for the color that I am because you see it as one in the same
Truth is we both bleed red
I've got feelings that cannot peacefully be said
I can't even feel safe in my bed
Or my home
Always I'm stuck in my head
In fear because you tell me my life is not my own
And while I believe that to be true
I believe it doesn't belong to you
It's to a higher power
A God who rules with power, conviction, authority, dominion, and justice
You're overruled
The system is failing
It's suffocating
As they hear my pain and suffering in my screams
And I wonder if my fellows, or future generations, will even get to step a foot onto the street
Help, me
Help. Me.
Help.. me..
Help me!
Help me
Because I can't breathe
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Cherry Words
PoetryJust some stuff I've wrote. Idk if it's good enough to call poetry but any feedback is appreciated. Everything was written by me. Thanks for reading! All the love 💛
