Words and Whispers

Black Lives Matter Edition - 2020

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"The Color of Peace"

The color of peace is Black
Black like oil
Fueling weapons
Black like the ink of treaties
Brok en
Black like fertile soil
Sold
Taken
Bloody
The color of peace is Black
Like Southern flesh
Burned
Like pages of history
Blotted
Like shadows walking
After ravishing
Black bodies reeling
In the night
Memories sunk beneath the Atlantic
Peace is not the absence of war
It is the presence of suffering
With the gall to live
Anyway

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