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I CAN NOT BREATHE - AYOMIKUN MISHAEL AFOLAYAN


BREATHE

"I can't breathe".
Those were the words he uttered
Before his life was snuffed out.
"I can't breathe".
Those were the words that he uttered
Before his life was ended, under the knee of a police officer.

He groaned in pain,
Pinned to the ground,
Unable to move,
Unable to breathe,
Losing the power,
The will to live.

And as he gave up,
As his life ebbed into nothingness,
He sparked a change, a movement.
He sparked the cry of a people,
Stifled by years, decades of  oppression and racisim
By years, decades of unfiltered bigotry and prejudice.
"We can't breathe!", they chant.
"We can't breathe!".

And I wonder,
If the knee will still be on the neck,
Restricting the freedom of a people.
And I wonder,
If the knee will still be on the neck,
Pressing the life out of a people.
I wonder,
If the knee will ever be removed,
If an entire race will be able to live, to breathe.

Ayomikun Mishael Afolayan

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