It's A..... I Need My..... (Poem)

I need my walker

I can’t hear

I can’t breathe

I need my asthma inhaler

 

Dawan Gordon dragged like sack of potatoes

Daniel Harris tried to communicate with his hands

Eric Garner shouted 13 times

Anthony D. Clark gasped for air

 

It’s a toy truck

It’s a clock

It’s a colostomy bag

It’s sign lanuage

 

Autistic young man was the target

Blind man with his talking clock, profiled

Down Syndrome man gets his colostomy bag snatched off 

Deaf man’s signs was seen as a threat

 

Train to protect and serve

Yeah tell me again yeah sure

You got your nerve

As you cover us in Black & Blue

 

You go on your paid vocation

While the DA & judges suite up for your protection

Blood money passed around to lawyers

Seeing you back in the community give us the Blues

 

I need my walker

I can’t hear

I can’t breath

I need my asthma inhaler

 

It’s a toy truck

It’s a clock

It’s a colostomy bag

It’s sign language

 

All of that don’t matter

Forcing us to believe in one answer

Registry, wristbands, i.ds & training

changing our ways but what stays the same are the abusers

 

By Leroy F. Moore Jr.