No To Chokehold

Chokehold is execution Chokehold is strangulation It is a death sentence in action It is an aberration It is killing, causing death It is stopping breath Going in the lungs and in the brain It is torture, suffering and pain We can't breathe We want to live We don't want to die We don't want to die We can't breathe We want to live Chokehold is fatal Chokehold is criminal Chokehold is deadly No to police brutality No to white supremacy No to conspiracy Chokehold is murder Black lives matter Chokehold is a grave sin Chokehold causes great pain No to brutal murder Black lives matter No to escalation No to degradation Chokehold must be illegal No to funeral No to violence No to intolerance No to cruelty No to barbarity No to atrocity No to ferocity No to savagery No to inhumanity No to suffocating No to smothering No to hanging No to lynching No to racial profiling No to asphyxiating No to unnecessary killing No to water boarding Life is too precious This is too obvious No to drowning in the streets For almost nine minutes No to injustice Yes to justice and peace No to premature death Yes to a wonderful life. Copyright © June 2020, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved. Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.