Today I seen
something I can’t talk about.
Captive in a world where violence
demands silence,
and the passive participation in the damnation
of your humanity.
Peculiar to feel the shift
as you gradually petrify.
Today I seen
something that involved blood
and dust,
accompanied by chain-link rust.
pooling life,
pain
and strife.
Today I seen
something that’d make a mother cry,
make a sister wonder why.
Something that makes me wonder too,
about life, death and experience.
About what it would be like to murder too.
Today I seen
something that visits in my sleep,
tugs at my conscience,
leveraging the weight of the secrets I keep.
Sometimes my soul weeps
and I smother it with rage.
Today they seen
me continue the cycle.
After you learn the rules,
it’s only a matter of time
until you play.