We’re Murdering Freedom Again and Again

Like so many others, I am angered and hurt by the blatant murder of George Floyd, by an officer who should have never been allowed to wear a badge or carry a gun.

Another man murdered

At the hands

Of hate

By the ones

Called to protect

And serve.

Knees pressed

To neck

So hard

He calls

Out

“I can’t breathe.”

Only to be ignored.

As if a monster

Got some

Sick twisted

Pleasure out

Of watching

A life ebb

Away at

His hands.

Martin Luther King Junior

Sacrificed

His life

In the hopes

That one day

The color of a

Man’s skin

Would not equate

To a death sentence.

Everytime we