A Poem For Change
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A Poem For Change

Let's stop growing accustomed to killing.

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A Poem For Change
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This poem is for everyone. It’s for Tony Robinson and Brandon Jones and Denzel Brown, for Nicholas Thomas and Jason Moland and Frank Shepherd III, for David Felix and Terrance Kellom and Freddie Gray, for Nuwnah Laroche and Jason Champion and Sandra Bland. It’s for everyone who was accidentally in the way, everyone who moved a bit too quickly or made eye contact at the wrong time. It’s for everyone who made a mistake – just one – and didn’t have the chance to grow from it. It’s for every human who can no longer claim that title as their own.

This poem is for change.

“Changes”

Just a reminder:

it’s not actually

Okay

to kill someone.

It’s not a shame

it’s not unfortunate

it’s not a newsflash

it’s not a report

it’s not a statistic

it’s not another name on another list

it’s not a shortcut

it’s not a solution

it’s not even a mistake,

not really.

What

is

killing

someone?

It’s the obliteration of a miracle.

As soon as a trigger is pulled,

the second a bullet enters a body,

the moment a pair of eyes goes blank,

a miracle is destroyed.

A miracle is

stomped on

torn apart

ripped to shreds

incinerated

destroyed.

A voice is stolen

a heartbeat frozen

thousands of paths that might have been chosen –

Gone.

I know, it’s hard to believe

that it changes

Everything

but it does.

And it’s hard to remember

that everything

Changes

but it does.

It changes

Everything

Changes

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