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It starts by telling
By stating it out loud
Declaring what we’ve done
We are the ones
So they’ll know why
It’s killing them
It’s killed the families
It’s taken life out of the womb
Disease injected, increased the lies
To cleanse color lines
It’s leaving orphans
It’s leaving homeless in the streets
Instead of love it leaves defeat
It took all hope of knowing
Why?
It’s silent, but you can hear it
If you care
It’s not just there
It’s everywhere
It’s in the desolation of their eyes
It fills the silence of their lives
They wonder why
We did this
Then we ran
We tried to hide the reason why
Instead of help
We give them genocide
A new generation of dead
Are born ahead of time
We send empathy
Instead of remedies
I wonder why
by S. Leah Brown
“GENOCIDE”
-After Picasso-
Lallouz, Elyahou
Mixed Media on Canvas Gallery Wrap
36 x 48 in.
S. Leah Brown, a colorful Urban Poetess and Spoken Word Artist is the founder of “The Write to Heal”, a workshop that promotes reading, poetry and other creative outlets for kids at risk. In 2004, her first workshop graduated from Mission College and the Youth Advocacy Program in Sylmar. Brown is also the author of a newly published poetry collection entitled “LEAHSLAND”. She may be contacted via email: tiggyclay@yahoo.com
