Book of Lamentations

for Black girls whose lives are never enough

who do we call for help? who protects us? who loves us? where are we safe? where can we find peace? where is our safe harbor? who got us tho?

we deserve more than the failures of your moral character, your fists, your judgements, your control and manipulation, your contempt, your insatiable need for respectability, your fearful imagination, your micro aggressions, your policing, your mammy-fying.

we deserve to be more than your broodmares, your mules.

we deserve more than their bullets ripping through our bodies and wiping us from this material realm in nanoseconds. we deserve more than a death sentences doled out as standard operating procedures.

we deserve the freedom you expect us to fight for you to have but never experience ourselves.

we just want to live in peace.

we want to live free.

we want to live.

we deserve to live.

we deserve fullness.

expression.

humanity.

protection.

love.

peace.

you in turn, deserve what you reserve for us.

the erasure would honestly hurt a little less if you would admit you’re committed to just not giving a fuck.

but you are committed to erasing us again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again without fail.

stop fucking killing black (cis and trans) women and girls.