It was a warm Night..

pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/392/photo_5_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Staff Writer/p p/pPIt was a warm night -br / br /the kind that drips with pain/p p/pPIt was a warm night filled with whispers and screamsbr / br /you can peel that kind of night away with your fingernails -br / br /you can cry into that kind of night and noone will hear youbr / br /it was a warm night filled with you Idris... /p p/pPhe was depressed they say-br / br /I’ve been depressed like that- Idris-br / br /so dpressed that only hollywood can fix it/p p/pPthey say he said “i’m gonna die tonite”- -br / br /i’ve said that Idris-br / br /many times..many timesbr / br /poverty, conflict, confusion, and distress- it drips too...br / br /onto our collective foreheads...br / br /when we’re trying to thinkbr / br /it fogs our minds -/p p/pP “I just need to finish school - -everything will be ok - I can get through this... but I br /can’t” - I heard your silent screams Idris - I heard you being tired of feeling that pain br /and I heard it whispered in the halls of that gentrified palace that palace of mirrored br /glass and the blood of a thousand of poor elders who once lived on that earth - who br /died trying to stay there./p p/pP I heard you Idris through all that burgundy carpet, popcorn and glass-br / br / I heard you idriss - cause I’ve been there..I am there.../p p/pPand I don’t know you but I do cause I know that kind of pain - I know that kind of conflict-/p p/pPbut poverty and conflict don’t carry guns-br / br /confusion and distress don’t shoot you/p p/pP8 Big men who are hired to gentrify us out of theatres and concerts, houses and br /neighborhoods. .who are paid to not understand - 8 white men who have the blood of br /other brown men on their hands and the agenda of other white ones in their pockets- br /these people shoot us and take away our life and our breath and our throughts and our br /laughs and our time and our painbr / br /and and take it away...br / br /... forever- /p p/pp- Tinybr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p