Black Lives Matter Poem by Gerry Legister

Effigy, the energy of hearts burning.
Opinion wafted waves of banners,
Dire insult collides with murky crying,
A populous nation on the parade of fires.

This time, the world is a drawing tide,
Excuses no longer secure a shoreline.
Protester voices calling from the inside.
Thoughts like these are taken in my time.

Injustice becomes more than a crime,
In the strongest bonds for those who die.
Black lives may hear their voices shine.
Lift their names high in prayer line to the sky.

And bloomed, and witness and breathe,
The matter inside the womb of a new psyche.