the poetry
uprooted tree
Never forget y’all
Except the crimes that go
Always forgotten
Transplanted olives
Split y’all
New roots rotten
Bitter branches of foreign trees
All while
Branches claiming roots from the seeds
That bleed
Autumn to fall
The leaves call
For blood that boils
Against y’all
And still y'all
never tasted the rains that feed
the soil
be positive
I want to be positive
Give words of affirmation
Guidance on how to live
Walk along rivers
To see slivers of adoration
Embodied in the petals of a lone lily
Watching illustrations
Of love reflect
Where earth and soul connect
But yet
I want to be positive
Live words that heal
Sacred entitlements
Speak truth so real
The touch
Genteel
Empathetic telepath
That deep belly laugh
Resonates
When future is the past
But
I have to ask
I want to be positive
No lamp
Still spark luminaries
Wisdom stamped
Enhance humanity
Through humanity
I am
The buried geode
Once cracked
Sheer beauty
Freedom of the daisy
But
I can’t act
peace
Peace
We all want peace, right?
Focus on the day and you won’t see the night
You turned off the lights, then handed us matches
Called it illumination
Then get mad when we ask if
Your christ would approve
“How dare you insinuate…”
Comfortable in your faith, asking
“You think a christian could hate?”
Yes
Protest is only effective when peaceful, right?
I know, I hear you
“You’re so negative”
“You don’t see the light, the good happening…”
You’re right
We should all be so willfully blind
Tell others to find hope
While minding their oppressors
Clinging to promises based in bias
While promoting your brother is lesser
Your faith a weapon of oppression
Disguised as hope
Christian aggression
Hope
For who?
The lessons gone
A rope bound by violence
And told to go pray in silence
“Hey, don’t be so negative”
“You’re only focused on the bad…”
I hear you, but I don’t feel you
Remember christ called YOU out when he turned the tables
But you’d rather picture the peaceful lamb of fables
Keep your god
Real hope is worth
Fighting for
Real hope is worth
Fighting for