The Chosen

It was a year ago, and I still wonder...

Ahmaud Arbery, I am sorry
Breonna Taylor, I say the same
George Floyd, it bears repeating
My sorrow, my grief, my pain.

Don't know why you were chosen
Will never understand why

You were the ones all chosen 

To take our cries up high.

You did not raise your hands
You did not volunteer

These never were your plans
To leave without a care.

In a car, at home or jogging
You could not catch your breath
Because, out there waylaying
Were demons dressed in flesh.

It was nothing but your Blackness
That posed a threat and fear
To those who saw your greatness
And chose to end it here.

But they misread your ending
In death, they made you soar
And caused a new beginning
We will lament no more.

Be gone, you oppressor
The death bell knells for sure
Your reign of terror is o'er
No more, no more, no more.

Breonna, Ahmaud and George

For us you paid the price
As you left, you bore the torch 

And made the sacrifice.

George Floyd, I thank you

Breonna Taylor, I say the same

Ahmaud Arbery, it's worth repeating
To you, I sing my praise.

And to all of you our fallen
For four hundred years and more
Names known and unknown
You, too, among the chosen.