All Lives Matters Poem by John Duffy

The world is transitioning through so many things.
The life we once knew will never be the same for so many, myself included.

After watching with sadness as the world burns and cries for freedom rings out, this whispered to be heard.
Be safe whenever you are.


Do those who still march

Echo words of profound truths linked to
Lamentations of generational curses

Or are they simply ignored by many as the
Songs and faces of the Forgotten

Even though their placards scream in unison
Black Lives Matters

As another of the fallen has a date with the Lord
After he's travelled in a convoy of black hearses

You may pass their heritage
Name
Country
Gender
Status and race

Around like cheap cigarettes
In badly lit secret rooms

The swirling grey smoke may sing of creating
Misplaced trust and
Manipulating televisions and newspapers with
Familiar white lies

But still, they walk proud
Filled with no fear of repercussions
Or regrets

Some of you in power or just followers of the old herd
May know deep inside

The ancestral pain you've once again caused
As just one new voice cried

The sounds imitating the thousands and millions of people
Who fell tormented and tortured before they died

The generations once held in slavery's white and green fields
As you still today
Pray to your imperialistic Mammon Gods

To get and sit where
You are

Can you really not see
Their blood is still on your hands
Even though now you've come so far

Blinded with corruption greed and a dark feeling of supremacy

The day will soon come when you pause to think and reflect

When you look into those silver gilded mirrors
In those secret back rooms
Where you plan and instigate

Do you ever comprehend
Due to your cognitive dissonance

You willbathe in the flames of Diablo's fires
Forever when you die

One of many lost souls
Doomed and cursed

To walk alone
Lonely forever

To cry endlessly like those poor souls
Who once walked behind so many black hearses

One day we will cheer and rejoice
As you and your like

No longer
Have a powerful voice

We will celebrate drunk with happiness and love
Long into the night

As history
YouTube Twitter Facebook or Instagram
Records and archives our plights

But until then all we
Can do is curse
And march

Lament and sing
Remembering the fallen and their names as we
Rejoice

Pleading for freedom
And everything it brings

For salvation is our only song
And marching is our chorus

Will you listen as our cries for justice
For yesterday today and the future
Rings out

As our ancestor's symphony is sung

Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia
Oh Lord
Justice will come

Alleluia
Oh Lord
Justice will come

Copyright John Duffy