A Thousand Miles Away
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A thousand miles away
George Floyd died
Of police brutality
His last words
Resonate here,
In my country
In my drawing room
In personal discussions
On T.V. and in newspapers
In breathless debates
Within protests and movements.
Why?
Because it is a rage of hundreds of years
Pressed under a knee
A simmering fire
That was waiting to conflagrate
A restless smoke
Suffocating people for years.
Was it a single man's murder?
No,
The way the brute police officer
Pressed his knee
On the neck of an unarmed black man
Was to show his power
To crush Floyd
Like a worthless being -
Not caring a damn
About his life.
The manner
In which the other police officers
Stood by
Showed how callous, how ruthless
They were, not caring a bit
When an innocent black man was dying.
‘I can't breathe, I can't breathe'
The last words of Floyd
Resonate in every corner of our world
Questioning
The sanity of humankind.
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