When?

When?

I see and read about so much pain

Look at my son and wonder what can I change

How have the uglies become so mainstream

Why have the ugliest things come into my home through this tv screen

Telling stories of a time I was told stories of moral ways

Shows on television that only showcased brighter days

Before arsenic was a main ingredient for fast foods

Flashing back to playing outside with hope that the street lights wouldn’t come on soon

Back when your only fear was that room MawMaw told you stay out of or a belt from a man known as Dad,

Cause see he lived with you

Eating home cooked meals Sunday-Saturday

Simpler times by whose standards?

When being black wasn’t the only card handed

This hate given of self echoes cries from our Ancestors screaming in Swahili Hausa Arifkaans Mixtec Nile-Saharan Patois Samaná Navajo Zulu Nahuatl Haitian Xhosa Apache Tsonga Igbo Venda Totonac Swati Choctaw Shona Ndebele Cree Chichewa Filipino Afroasiatic Huichol Italian Sioux Arabic Zapotec Sesotho Niger-Congo Tswana Chinese Tzotzil Yupik Oromo Yoruba Inuktitut Amharic Spanish Basque English French Otomi Portuguese Arabic ..........