GhostSlayer

Blood

Hands

I look around

How did I

Get here

No

How did we

Get here

To this place of

Rioting

Festering

Loathing

Hatred

When I was young

When I come home from school

and my parents ask how my day was

my answer is almost always

"Irritating"

or

"Bad"

or

"A pain in the butt".

Why?

Because my classmates will

scream

once i sat down on the curb and told you, love, these things aren't what we're used to.

we're stop signs like angels circulating (don't breathe, don't move)-

" if i am killed for simply living, let death be kinder than man. " - Kinder Than Man, Althea Davis.

if i am killed,

mangled and beaten,

for simply living,

“Harris is a communist,” My grandfather protests. 

“Better a communist than a felon,” My father shoots back. 

you should be an image in stained-glass windows 

the same ones you trace with your eyes every sunday 

while hymns echo in your ears, words 

you've known so long you forget the meaning.