It was so visible, so wrong
In contrast to the death snarl
Of an invisible pandemic attack
When an officer pressed the wind pipe
Of George Floyd to his death
Even after he pleaded, “I can’t breathe”
Which took the whole world’s breath away
Suffocating from the choke hold of racism
Past its “ad nauseam” finality of endurance
When another modern day lynching
Brought out huge protests turning violent
Pleading for relief from society’s nemesis
Ignoring the ethics of “love your neighbor”
And the hate for groups based on our skin
Please, can’t we move on. Enough already!
If we are to make America great again
We have to refocus our worries on survival
By worrying about Climate Change and
The devastation of a nuclear holocaust
No longer can we survive on ”petty” violence
By proving ourselves superior to another
By enslaving property and lying to ourselves
We need the protest voices that erase hypocrisy
And embrace a higher calling for peace and
Justice by burying racism in the ugly past.
5/31/20 by Ron Faust (On occasion when a white police officer Derek Chauvin and three accomplices choked George Floyd in Minneapolis and set off a conflagration of disturbances around a pandemic-stricken nation)