#unequality

Stay At Home

As the storm fills in My heart feels joy For there is no better reason to stay at home

to watch your cat sleeping under the glass table so fragile yet so safe

to close all the windows and then later on to check once more they're doubly closed

i would not want uninvited rain at least that's what i'm told because

but i still contain my peace it’s easy when lighting strikes the other side

after all i have a cat and a glass table on which i choose to solemnly write

until i hear a stray outside they howl the rain and weep and hide

This is so real for me. I was alive & living in the tri-state area during this case.... I was young but I remember people talking about Black Boys “wildin”... there was so much fear.

Now as an adult.... as the mother of a Black Boy myself... I see the truth ... we believed these innocent children were monsters - and now I understand how easy it is to criminalize Black youth ...

The ultimate irony is that we were also taught to respect White men in suits on Wall Street... ( even though we would find out later that they were the real criminals )

[kən-ˈtrast , ˈkän-ˌtrast] /noun/ equality of being unequal

she has an exceptional volume in her soul,

while i mute my words in control,

she planted flowers and assume its bloom

while i water it and wait for its gloom

she let herself sink into the emotions,

while i weave words to give motion,

she knows how to influence others,

while all I can do is to do their favors,

she got her luck all the time,

while i always end up trying again,

we’re two different magnetic poles,

she’s the north while i’m the south,

and we attract each other

but then,

she had you,