I Cannot Comprehend

I Cannot Comprehend

 

It is impossible to comprehend

The weight of these atrocities

On my heart and mind

I cannot, I cannot comprehend

The difference, the value lost

From being small and black.

These are my people

Does no one care?

 

How can one become so crazed

As to crush a babies skull?

In wanton luxury

Of all that is evil

Kill innocence?

 

Is the life of a small black child

So dispensable as not to

Matter at all

In the eyes of the economies

Of our world?

 

What value do we put on restraint

When those we are watching

Are mad crazed for blood

Schooled and incited

To butchery?

 

It is impossible to comprehend!

The weight of these atrocities

Eats at my heart and mind.

I cannot, I cannot comprehend.

My anger ferments into rage

As governments procrastinate

Their pain too shallow.

The child is not their own.