Shyla Rose - Shadows
You are not strong
Breaking hearts like polystyrene
Cutting families apart like paper doll chains
Like there’s glue in our bloodstream
Like we can self-adhesive our lives back together
Once they’ve been smashed up, by angry little boys
You are not strong
There is no strength in violence
No strength in guns and gas
No strength in silence
In breaking bones and glass
In picking on the other kids
And making it a game.
You are not strong
Your strength is a facade
You’ve stolen these unfinished lives
Feeding off their pain
To fill your weak minds and weaker egos with purpose
How can you think this game is fun?
We see it in your eyes
You smile and sneer and draw your gun
As if it gets you high
You look at them as if they’re game
Some kind of human feast
The hunt is really what you crave
A parasite at best.
Life is not black and white
Life is hard and grey.
We need real change
We need real strength
We need Phoenix tears and respirators and bandages and antiseptic force
We need the truth and facts unfurled
We need to start to heal the world.
This game should have ended before it began
Human beings are not your toys
Take the blame and end this chase,
Because our shadows eventually catch up with us.
Thumbnail image taken from “Moonlight 2016”