Greetings

Someone stop yesterday 

So I can catch up 

With my breathe today

Been waiting to exhale 

Now I'm dying to breathe 

Collapsing up pressure

Tumbling because they've 

Cut my knees from beneath me 

And still expect me

To pull myself up 

From my own bootstraps

I've been shaking in fear

Longer than many in this pandemic 

For me just being alive

Has been my pandemic 

I've struggled with my skin

Rejected it like a plague

Bleached it as if erasing

My ancestors sins

My shame is Instilled in my veins

Numb from thus world 

Thar I've isolated the pain

Unwilling to pass on an legacy

Anything that existed before

Will be buried with me

There will be no...

Remembrance 

Repass...

Resurrection....

Severing all connections to the future...

With hope that  tomorrow's flowers

Emerge with hindrances..

Through the concrete

To be afflicted by the acid

And picked part by

Infestation...

If only today could...

Whisper into the consciousness tomorrow 

Perhaps yesterday could greet me

With  an hug