A Letter to Revolt

Where are my revolutionaries?

What happened to you and I, do or die?

Where are the rally cries?

Where are my revolutionaries?

Where are the voices to carry our democracy?

Where is the urgency?

Where are my revolutionaries?

Have they buried us all too far in our grief?

Have they taken out enough people that look like me?

Haven’t we seen enough people slain on the streets.

Where are my revolutionaries?

Breonna Taylor could have been a revolutionary- if she only had the time

Tamir Rice could have been a revolutionary- if he only had the time

George Floyd could have been a revolutionary- if he only had the time

Mike Brown could have been a revolutionary- if he only had the time

So many revolutionaries that didn’t have the time.

So many revolutionaries with stolen lives

I see all their faces and they look just like mine.

Will I get to be a revolutionary or will you put my face on signs?

Will I get to be a revolutionary or will you call my name through the streets?

Will I get to be a revolutionary, or will I always have to fear for white fragility.

Peaceful protests written as riots

Our civil unrest punished for non-complacency.

When the simple saying of Black Lives Matter is an incitement for police?

Where are my revolutionaries?

Will I become a symbol?

Will they martyr me?

Because I’ll be the first to say

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE

Where are my revolutionaries?

Eric Garner

Mike Brown

Breonna Taylor

Tamir Rice

Freddie Gray

Philando Castile

Daunte Wright

Say their names and say them right.

The only reason they aren’t with us is solely black and white.

They didn’t get to be revolutionaries.

They’re another reason why we fight.

If you’re not a revolutionary, I need you to wake up and see the light.