Racial Terror Lynchings

Struggling to catch his breath
As the hangman’s halter,
Tightened in his neck.
He stands at the tree,
Doesn’t touch
And doesn’t speak.

They say he bumped
into a white lady while racing to
catch the freight monorail.
But many perceived that wasn’t the
vindication for such a
gruesome punishment.

This massacre was all about
Terrorizing and Demoralizing the
African-Americans, through
Racial Terror Lynchings.
The vexation of white people grew towards the
proletariat African-Americans, who
they reckoned to be as their
property or belonging.
Their anger

grew more like an angry bear chafed with sweat.

Hate was the darkness.
African-Americans were tortured,
Maimed, beaten, shot, hung
and burned alive by vicious, remorseless
white people with the help of
the men in blue, who African-Americans
assumed to protect and ensure
that their families were safe.

At these right moment,
Lynching is still going on and on,
It has been ameliorated
through police brutality, excessive punishment
in the criminal justice system and punitive treatment of children of
color in schools and streets.

And you tell me that lynching had ceased,
that it was just some case
of dark-skinned history.
Then check the news,
and you will still see that they are still lynching us.

We need to unite and
become one.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness,
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate,
only love can do that.
Let go the grudges
of yesterday and hold on to the hope of tomorrow.