society

How Many Angels?

Dear America
How many angels
gunned down
in schools
out shopping
dancing
dating
sleeping
living
loving
before heaven fills up?

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77 Minutes

For 77 min they waited to go inside
For 77 mins they waited to save their lives
Why?
Were their lives not that important?

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Stranger

By AG Would you mind if I stood next to you – a stranger on the street? Even though my life so far has not been nice and neat? Society says I’m less than you Because I have a past And treats me like the dark and evil villain of the past Would you mind…

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Peaceful Protest

By AL “The home of the brave, and the land of the free” are notably beautiful words written by Francis Scott Key. Yet. in 1814 those words didn’t apply to individuals with the same skin color as me. So for all the injustice then and now that I see, I proudly place my fist in…

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WOKE

By HF What is WOKE in this day and age Is it simply activism only from a social media page? Is it an afro and a pick? An Olympic stage raised clinched fist Consciously eating organic kale salad While digesting an Erykah Badu ballad Is it Nat Turner’s unspoken rage? An Angela Davis gaze Is…

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