7d • Share your Poems
Black Tears
In honor of Black history month, I decided to share this piece. This piece is not an advocate to hate or promote hatred. It simply addresses how African Americans have come such a long way from the oppressions of slavery. Honorable leaders like MLK that took a non-violence approach to push the Civil Rights movement, as well as others should be commended. So to honor February, which is Black History month ( I am part African-American) I give you Black Tears.
Black Tears
Bodies hit the ground
as black tears come running down
Black faces
Black hatred
dispersed in black spaces
as black on black crime
explodes in media headlines
infiltrating black minds
erasing black memories
of black history
of Martin and Malcolm
and all that we’ve overcome
and all the battles we have won
Have we forgot that we are one?
We come from the same places.
We wear the same black faces.
Have we been taught by those
who hate us
black cannibalism,
caused my division?
while they sit and cheer
as we cry our black tear
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