Showing posts with label World Poetry Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Poetry Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Run, Hide, Fight

They coming for me!
I got to run I got to hide I got to—
I got to— I got—
No. I don't got nothing but me two bare hand.
I got what inside me and I can't change that.

They coming for me?
They life so perfect they coming to fix how I live?
How I love? Who I love?
I gon learn to walk straight if you shoot me?
I gon learn to pray great if you prey on me?

They coming for me. Ha.
To take me where? To do me what?
You can't erase me, I always been here.
I gon always be standing here, fighting
here, and you can't change that.

- Anonymous

N.B: "Run, Hide, Fight' is the shorthand American school children are taught for what to do if there's an active shooter. i.e. Try to run away. If you can't run, find a hiding place. If you can't hide, fight back with whatever you have.