Innocence after Khaliifa

Fatima Jalloh

Innocence

abstract as your heart beating in your chest
Khaliifah Marcellus Williams our 2024 tragedy
the backbone of our lives, we gather
once again on this field as mourners
this mourning we wake to a 6:00pm lynching

Innocence

abstract as losing your breath
Khaliifah our 2024 tragic hero
as poets, every one loss a forsaken world
again on this field of mourners, mourning our forsaken world
this mourning we realize that we are too innocent poets

Innocence 

as abstract his metaphor
My brother, in this darkness
we seek something in your remembrance
and whatever we can’t find
we mourn