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A silence that is loud


A dark void from the body of black flesh

Blackholes filled with bodies of police victims

Control over the chains of constant pain

Darkness flooding over the sun

Even the strongest dead 

Flooding and flooding 

Gapping holes of bullet wounds

Hope that is now dead 

Icy cold eyes looking over the dead

Juicy red liquid oozing from the cavities

Killing of my brothers and sisters

Looking for the help that doesn't come

Murder Murder here you come

Never ending cries of souls

Open caskets of the taken

Popping sounds of the guns

Quick feet like the ancestors

Running for a life that will be taken

Sirens that seal your fate 

Tired of fighting, tired of running, tired of crying

Unrepresented voices that are loud

Violence not by us but by them

White police officers mistaking guns for hairbrushes

Xenogenic predispostion for dying

Yelling for you to stop, Begging for you to stop

Zooming into the future for the light to shine

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gerose1590
<p>We need to stop police brutality with our voices. We cannot see another of us lost because we are silent.</p>

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