Black Lives Matter
I thought of what I would have liked to hear
I thought of the words that I would have liked to say.
I searched and struggled to articulate the weight of the emotions.
In the end, it came down to this ;
" I, am here for you"
Some of us fight one global pandemic,
Some of us fight two global pandemics.
One is new and the world is struggling to win this battle and reset our norms.
One is old and ignored time and time again.
One threatens to take those we love.
One has been taking those we love and continues to threaten to do so again, and again.
This fear that the virus has brought into our lives,
Racism has held over black people for a long, long time.
We stand alone in a sphere of empty space, screaming till the veins pop out of our necks,
We scream and wonder, is there a tiny echo reaching beyond and through the depths?
This fear grips us,
Threatening, that our experiences which we have lived through,
generation after generation after generation is to be inherited anew.
Think of that fear and reach out to say
"I am here for you"
This fear, morphed into rage will outweigh this new pandemic because we have been scared for too long now.
Because a cure and a vaccine gives us hope,
while empty words leave us hopeless
Reach out and say
I am here for you
I see you through the Fog and the Pain
I am Here for You.
Reach out, stand, speak, act.
Reach out, Be here for us.
