All Too Real

All Too Real

He said to them

“ I’m sorry you don’t believe me

but I wish that you could feel and see

my heart bleeding and know that

it is all too real

there are those that suffer the weight of indifference

like bringing a cow to a plow dragging its feet

as if the reality and knowledge would hurt them somehow

desperately I want you and I too come together

I want us to heal because we are all brethren

with just different shades of skin

if we all open our hearts the sun

will always find its way too flood in..

I know you don’t believe this

but I cry as much for you as I do for me

I know the weight of bigotry racism and hate

is a terrible burden to carry one

that must keep the carrier constantly

bitter and irate

now is the time for change

the beginning is a handshake

you and I asking each other’s names

over a coffee or a brew a few questions and answers

provocative and thoughtful you hearing me

I hearing you

squeezing out the pain

the more we can squeeze out

the more each of us has too gain

and the police need to stop acting as the overseers

to the slave masters

they need rid themselves of that kind mentality

with their whippings

killing the beatings and the desire to bring back

the hanging trees as if this were again the legal institution

at the height of slavery”

Clyde A. Wray

June 16, 2020

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