Now I’m thinking of all those who  never got to have many firsts.   Emmett & Trayvon & Tamir boys so light with futures so heavy with life with smiles bright enough to shine through the darkest nights, who will never get their first old car, first bad job, first love and first breakup. Danez says, don’t imagine us dead, Imagine us alive someplace better. & so, I like to imagine the...

I am white, and I see colour.Because to not is to be blind.Absolutely shut-eyed to the fact that somebody has seen your colourand hated the richness so much that you find your neck underneath their foot,the same foot they have used with their otherto trample on your humanitytheir whole half-life and then used to walk off lightly- no need to run because who do they need to run from?I see your co...

Black lives matter I am tired of living in a world where my very existence feels like a threat. Black lives matter and I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again and I’ll scream it from the top of my lungs until the world understands that black lives matter. This has nothing to do with black or white and everything to do with human rights. I fight for a better life because I want my children to gro...

I go outside and see less people wearing my skin I turn on the TV and I see less people wearing my skinAm I alone wearing my skin The look on people’s faces when they see my skinCrime associated with people wearing my skinGangs associated with people wearing my skinViolence associated with people wearing my skin Abuse showing to people wearing my skin I am afraid of wearing my skin Would it be ...

Beyond the threshold of this door whispers the sea,and this slave house answers through the carvingsimprinted in the stone foundation, where crashing sea foam reaches its peak.Last night, I came to acknowledge that we may die as slaves,and, like our ancestors, will join the ethereal ranks of our ancestral spirit.Tonight, I raise my chains in farewell and cast my eyes on the Atlantic waters. We ...