POETRY > “whiteness is broken”

DeepInBlueForest

whiteness is broken

⚠️ racism & notes refer to police violence

whiteness is broken
hard road of rain
black tears unheard
white won't explain

rudely throwing
people away
for rich whiteness
violence is play

a blackbird sings
deep in green wood
if she was no ghost
oh life would be good!

lies creep the streets and 
rot living minds
whiteness is broken
leave it behind


NOTES:

whiteness = white supremacy

I wrote this poem about racism and I was hearing on the news about deportations from the UK. Just yesterday, a friend re-posted a video of Amanda Seales talking about Breonna Taylor. Although I wrote this some time ago, I thought, it’s time to post it as a protest against systems of racist white supremacy and police brutality.

May, 14, 2020.