By Alais Springer '23
Floyd,
Your face lays now in a sky full of roses
But now they will only kneel before you, King
You will not be another man forgotten
You are not just a corpse
Face to the ground
You couldn’t breathe
But they couldn’t see you
It took seven minutes
Seven minutes for all of the air to escape from your lungs
For the chains you once thought were gone
To wrap around your neck, reminding you of your bondage
You begged please
You couldn’t breathe
You are as strong as a black man
A black man who cannot remove his blackness
Like a cloak, for his own protection
A black man who lived to die
A black man WHO COULDN’T BREATHE
The light you shined, as loud as a scream
And we heard you
We will fight for you, we will fight for all of you
“When civility leads to death, revolting is the only option”
By any means necessary
They will say your name
And now you will rest
And like a Phoenix
You will rise
To hear them say your name.
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