#GeorgeFloyd ...

You couldn’t breathe

With that knee on your neck

Pressing gingerly strongly confidently

For nine long minutes …

I can’t breathe

Even now

Even before

All along

As the stench of hatred fills the nostrils

from there till here, everywhere

Across countries, across cultures

And all those judgements because my religion is not the same

Or my caste or because I am female and I am dark

And the voices scream from within –“I too am human”

And your voice “Momma” before you became still

And the silence thereafter keeps piercing my ears

And I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe!

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