New Names

Photo by Bjørn Nielsen from Pexels

Photo by Bjørn Nielsen from Pexels

Every day, I scroll online,

I see new names

New Justice,

A new fight for peace

A peace that has never existed

400 years and we still fight the same wars

We're numbed by the tokens they show us

The ones they allow in the same room

Not giving enough, but just enough to fool us that things have changed These tokens are to numb us

If Sir Thomas Alexander Dumas, Alessandro de' Medici didn't save us, then neither will Obama If Beethoven, Joseph Boulogne didn't save us, then neither will Kanye or Jay-Z If Queen Charlotte didn't save us, then neither will Megan

The names are new, but we've never changed.

I want a revolution.

I want to burn down everything on site.

Let the anger that they told us was unjust see the light.

We can't wait.

They were never products of their time, the times have never fucking changed

We've fought then, we fight now.

Who kyah hear, muss burn.

And I'm tired of that being us,

And the millions of names we don't hear

The names we can't remember

The names of the millions who went overboard

The names of the ones who went missing without an Alert,

The names of activists who went missing or ended up in mysterious deaths.

Child Natale

(She/her) I'm a Jamaican (born, raised, currently reside) queer, intersectional-radical-feminist, anti-capitalist.

These poems fall under the theme Radical Love In The Time Of Corona because they were inspired by all the fights against injustices that we are made more aware of because of the lack of access that happens in marginalised groups such as in health care centers. These are only effects of colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, racism etc.. These poems were also inspired by the theories and works of feminist activists Audre Lorde, Stacey-Ann Chin, Angela Y. Davis, and Bell Hooks.

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