Living While Black

Do I really want to drive?

We can't even go out for a walk? 

Do I really need to jog? 

Do I really want to go shopping and should I dare to use a coupon?

Do I really want to go to the park? Have A BBQ?

Do I really need to go out and eat lunch? 

Do I really need to go back to my imaginary apartment?

Do I really need to garden? 

Do I really want to sit in my car?

Should I dare to sleep in the common area of my dorm

Or dare to sell something as simple as water?

________________ while black.

It's called breathing, thinking, doing anything, and being anywhere while black. 

Look at this! This is my mental space. 

These are the things I'm starting to debate

I'm over the ignorance from people who can't relate

The same ones who are still asleep, while we have to stay awake

Beyond tired of us dying every week from their fear or their hate.

Author's Note

I wrote this with a heavy heart, a depressed mind, and fed-up spirit as we've three different black men that didn't deserve to lose their lives. Ahmaud Arbery while jogging, Douglas C Lewis because a white man "feared for his life," and woke up one this morning and found out out 21 year old U.S army vet, Sean Reed.