SAY HER NAME

So many names

One is too many

In the same place

They met the same fate 

An injustice they didn’t deserve

Too many names 

Yet some don’t understand 

Why we speak to this day

Of lives taken away
At the hands of those chosen to serve

How many names
Will never be spoken?
These are just the ones we know
We vow to remember in hopes
One day the grief will end

Will there be more names
Cried out in anguish
Before the mourning ceases
As racism increases
A rift that hate cannot mend?

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