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Two Twenty-Three 2020, Remembering Ahmaud Arbery
you may have been inquisitive
an aspiring electrician
curious about internal wiring
an existing structure
the frame, its knotted veins
a building in progress
in neighborhood streets, viewed as a violation
on familiar sidewalks, stalked as a target
did you know the trees?
did you recognize the truck?
all white everything
White Men
White Family
White Rage
White Violence
White Supremacy
hunted, chased, cornered
from a jog to a fight
shot three times and still swinging
broad daylight
strange how strangers like you
become haunting stories and gut-wrenching scenes
a modern-day lynching
and yet most didn’t know for weeks
maybe time is a necessary ingredient for change
but you were killed before your time
when many didn’t even pretend
having not yet been forced to change
