George Floyd

places across the globe's planetary waves

attempts to justify the trade of slaves

maleficent skills to uproot family ties

religion and mental vehicles promote lies

black serviceman fought, bled, died to make true

penal reform claiming moral anew

to a nations' founding ideals not yet

no more for sale just the lives we beget

a short lived reconstruction soon gives way

below market value of melanin prey

then segregation and exclusion pains

ages later the price gap still remains

hands up helpless cuffed vulnerable facedown

Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown

a growing list of lives hate has destroyed

Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, George Floyd...

-TLY