Emanuel Ayvas - I Can't Breathe Again

I live my life of attention
In the suspension of my thumb above a screen
And I dream, but only what I let myself
To curate everything that I can see
But then...
I dreamed last night I saw my nieces and my nephews graduate
And found that I was crying because I was just so proud of them, oh
But then I woke up in a pool of sweat
To news of the environment
Of money monster lobbyists that sent us to the streets again
We’re raising up our fists again
We’re raising up our kids in this!
Wondering how many times
We’ll have to shout it back to them that
I can’t breathe again
I can’t breathe again
I watched a man kill another man on camera
There can be no justice
When we can’t look our family in the eyes
When we can’t see beyond the color of our skin and the color of our gods
And how it’s held us down together throughout culture over time
Though many’ve moved beyond the devil’s knee there pressed behind
No individual is free
With any one of us denied
And shouting
I
I watched a man kill another man on camera
Can’t breathe again
I
I watched again as another man on camera shouted, I
Can’t breathe again
I can’t breathe again

Written by:
Emanuel Ayvas

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