I CAN'T BREATHE

I can’t Breathe — He can’t breathe!

Became an Anthem to injustice, inhumane and unholy

I can’t Breathe -Hauntingly true and all the same pain from the past.     

I can't breathe a voice heard even from another place far away

I can’t breathe - A movement and song - not ever a happy one

I can’t breathe — We can’t breathe!

As Mum cries out and we cry out too

It becomes an Anthem for dispute for War even;

I can’t Breathe and we hear the cry

But we surrender to ego, to ways that spite, without thought and no remorse.

I can’t Breathe she cries and we ignore her cry we put it aside shutting our eyes while we close hers;

She shouts I Can’t breathe to our bigger, faster machines - eating up hills, animals and jungles ensuring they breath no more;

She pleads I can’t breathe as our resolve gets stronger - we want new and demand custom;

She chokes out I can’t breathe we block it out with a swipe and a smile - how rich we look;

She coughs I Can’t breathe as our smoke melts the caps on mountains and chokes her back;

She explodes I can’t breathe  - we blame her bury our dead only remembering our dead but never her cry;

She weeps I can’t breathe and lets down her tears - we mop up and ignore the signs of a future deluge;

She says in a sweet kind voice I can't breathe and we help for just a moment before forgeting her pleas, weeping, explosion and her choke as we believe its all just a joke.

Sorry for you Mama I want I want and I need!

Take a Breath

I can’t breathe - her voice smaller and weakened, battered and shattered, again and again we let it RIP

I can’t breathe as she shows her scars to closed eyes, turned away faces or just walked away and tell her turn the other cheek;

I can’t breathe and we tune her out and tune in to self, me, myself and I

I can’t breathe as we keep the knee in, push down harder and suppress our own thoughts, forget our history and make it worse not better

WHEN WILL WE LEARN

I can’t breathe lets lift you up mama be kinder and more gentle as you are to us;

I can’t breathe lets change a thing or two or three or four;

I can’t breathe lets gets you well again before you go away for good and you turn off your light;

I can’t breathe lets celebrate a new dawn as Michael asked through his Voice;

I can’t breathe lets reset and collaborate to make Mama well again;

I can't breathe must be our history not our future.

Lets all breathe so Mum can breath steadier, healthier and stronger.

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Kindest Always

Nicholas