If i may, i pray

JAZMIN ROSE | JUNIOR, WRD AND ENGLISH

i pray one day you can be yourself. you can play dice, and not lose your life. pray you can lay in your own bed, and not be in your head about who may come in, and steal you and rob your future kin, of a father. because they didn’t bother, because they saw your skin, oh i pray this wouldn’t happen. i pray your locked hair, gold teeth, and peoples urge to stare, doesn’t make you go instinct, the black male species, left rare.

i pray that this happens no more, but i am sore because i know by time i finish reading this there will be more, and more, black boys gone. and i cannot do anything but better love, appreciate, uplift, and allow the men in my life to be free, careless, fun, naive, innocent. because i may be the only one who views them that way. but i will continue to view them so, if i May, so this I pray.