Thursday, July 18, 2013

Trayvon Martin: His Grim Reaper

 
 
 
TRAYVON MARTIN: HIS GRIM REAPER
You'll misunderstand my grief, confuse it
perhaps with a lost hand at poker,
cluck your tongue
at my sour grapes, scold me, tell me
time has come for me to get over it.
I'll be chided for not accepting the turn
of how these wheels of justice works,
move on will be the repeated whisper
under your exasperated breath,
as you tire of my whining complete
with its wine and cheese, but mine,
this bitter anguished whine
will not subside, nor be stilled by your
impatient sidesteps this time.
This time the bell rung that summoned
hell himself cannot be undone,
we've one too many sacrificial sons
dismissed with callous disregard,
his worth diminished by a bullet
through his heart.
It was the Grim Reaper he met
on his way home, the stalker
whose mission he could not
defeat, who stalked him,
blocked all routes by which
he sought to retreat. A Reaper
summoned straight from hell
whose spaws now paw and wish
him well. But this time
the bell rung that summoned
hell himself cannot be undone
nor the debt we owe to our
lost son. He is our catalyst
of change, not its victim
but its name as we chant
Trayvon in the streets, in our
prayers, in our sleep. As we
resolve to bring an end
once and for all to this
perpetual sin.
©  Peggy Eldridge-Love

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Trayvon Martin - Ancestor's Grief

I really thought that I'd be able to process the verdict regardless of how and where it came down, so no one was more surprised than me that I absolutely lost it - cried hysterically (an absolute shock because in spite of some of my own recent very personal losses hysterics didn't come to play on those occasions) because apparently this grief was old - it was ancestor grief - it was from the bowels of the rotting ships crossing the Atlantic 400 years ago - it was that of that first mother seeing that first son put on that block and sold into hell - it was things I didn't realize abode within my rudimentary heart and soul. Now released it is truly for me the drum beat of change.