This is the first poem I fully finished and performed. It was for a black history month assembly at my high school when I was in grade 11. I performed it at school and at a church.
Refuse to just exist
I refrain from living in bondage
But I’m breathing in these daily fumes of discouragement and disappointment
And my lungs keep gasping
Waiting for relief to breathe normally
But my heart’s giving to many second chances
It’s to late to finally live when I’m buried in a casket
Still begging and asking
God what have I done to deserve this predicament
But I’m still too focused on this life that I’m comfortably sitting in
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