Eyes wide open, as I see the dreadful world in which I was birthed, normalize the death of black men. Desensitization kicked in, permeating jadedness of melanin being obliterated right before our eyes..."We are human beings." That statement sheds its epidermis revealing a dull and ugly rebuttal: All lives matter. We are tired of being tired. Sick and tired of being tired. Yet as I write this, spilling my soul, I begin to erupt with vehement vigor.....BLACK LIVES MATTER! Maybe not to YOU, but the lives of the people in my family, every single one of them, beautiful and whole, THEY MATTER.
Eligance
P.S.
Never digress off of what's real, no matter who feels uncomfortable. To be comfortable when you're neighbor suffers next to you makes you an accomplice .
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Eliman Jeng
Father, poet. Much more than the keys can type.
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