Various Poems

16. Black Flamingos

Emotional train wreck
My sunken shipwreck and the love that they left
Respect to us will always be buried with havoc
Appalling judgements, impaling statements
Eye to eye, celadon against onyx
Deacon of hope with dementia, dwindled trust in the police with violent emotions
Eccentric hypocrites, it doesn't mean I'm black that you're allowed to kill me.

An effigy of brutality, declined movements and bloody pavements
Erudite scholars, fatigued mouths doesn't deserve silence
Worked so much to spread truth and rights that needs to be licensed
Fundamental brain cells is all we need to make you understand
That color doesn't define importance and my existence is well refined
Equal rights is vague but imminent.

We just need to stop the macabre gunshots and noxious flash-bangs
You deserve impeachment for your perjury
You need to go to school again with your prejudices and verdicts
It's clearly transgression with all of your neglecting
But our voice is profuse, fusing the bomb of equity
Your ancient mind and putrid brain, rotting the country who doesn't deserve it
We're free once again, fight for equality and not for vengeance
Humans are restorative, they just need to undergo through a slumber of wise encouragement.

Black flamingos swimming in a lake of sinkholes
Shot by hunters with a heart so cruel
I pray you won't suffer no more
We'll get the equality that we've been trying to fight for
God is retroactive, so thoughtful, that's why we love him
Race will no more be a tinderbox of judgements
Like how we Filipinos are the black flamingos of Asia.

Neck of both flamingos, black and white
Writhed together with peace and kind
More than sizable love and respect
Let's pray that we are going to be equal by color and we'll be respected more than we ever expect.

Black flamingos is only a part of a kaleidoscope of colors
The phoenix is going to bless the skies with cosmic matter
Racism and sexism will just be a crestfallen chapter
Respect and love will never be a forgotten mineral like water
I promise, we'll be sitting together, happy with euphoric laughter.