Open Mind, Eyes Wide Shut

Y stands for youth,

Vitality and incompleteness 

A stands for absence of stance for the "pledged allegiance"

Oh yes, S represents the stress I've suppressed

Right hand to my chest

I pledge for the grievance 

(N for...)

For a better nation 

For lack of better terms 

More reparations 

For the cracked skulls and bloodshed on pavement for payment

 

You're caught blood-red handed 

More than white and blue collar

No more do I wanna see families crying over late fathers

 

Don't read between the lines

 

black privilege isn't an exclamation, despite its declaration, it remains nothing more than the minor punctuation of a 250-year long death sentence.

This poem is about: 
My community

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