Poetry's Power

Poetry helps you go and see
as someone else instead
like trading someone's eyeballs and putting them in your own head
I could just tell you something, but you might not get it
as a poem, an inserted minds image shifts perspective
ever wonder how Ghengis khan ruled a continent before telecommunications?
with a vast army of illiterate men, conquering all kinds of nations? 
through word of mouth, but how could a message be remembered? 
and not change from one to another, from August to December?
how could he be in Korea and give orders to Afghanistan? 
surely something would get jumbled, passed from man to man
he sent messages through poetry, look it up
because a poem can get in your mind with a hook and tug
it escorts you on a journey and displays ideas the way it planned to 
if poetry can conquer almost all of Asia, imagine what else it can do

#AvengeFloyd

He'll never be back
Father of two that rolled with DJ Screw
H-town to Minnesota for a new start
keeping kids out of gangs with a true heart

he was big Floyd in the third ward
we send his words into the world
the kind of man we need
the kindness we could see
a soul that planted seeds
silenced by a knee

another unarmed black man killed by a white cop
Those protesting for haircuts couldn't quite stop
these white cops from killing black kin,
the constitution wasn't there for him
it sat in a vault and didn't do shit
rich politicians that talk about freedom?
This spot, the campaign trail didn't lead them
the pro life protesters must have been busy
caring more about a zygote
than a lynching of black folks

You can't oppress
and not expect
to be met
a cause with effect

newton's third law
will ensure raw
it's gonna fall
to avenge them all

Avenge Emmett Till & Rodney King
Philando Castile & Joseph Mann
Eric Garner &    Alton Sterling
Breonna Taylor & Sandra Bland
Ahmad Arbury & Rekia Boyd
Freddie Gray, Meagan Hockaday, 
Avenge George Floyd