Black Lives Matter!, we protest in the streets.
The murder of George Floyd was our Climax.
Heinous acts against black people repeats,
If no Justice is served we won’t feel unlax.
Breonna Taylor shot in her own home,
Ahmaud Marquez was shot while jogging.
Say ,yell their name because they are not alone
April Twenty everyone was watching,
As Justice was served to George Floyd’s murder.
One step forward in a new horizon,
It’s the beginning of a new chapter.
In an America free of poison.
In an America free of distrust.
Somewhere nobody can/will constraint us.
When starting this poem I knew I wanted to do a form of poetry, but not just any form of poetry; I wanted to write a Sonnet. When writing sonnets you want to do them on current events, and a current event that I truly believe in is the BLM movement. I wanted to speak on it because I feel that it’s not spoken about as much as it was in 2020. I didn’t include any literary devices because I feel like it’s a very serious topic. One thing I did was use repetition just to give more emphasis on what I’m trying to say, for example when I repeat “In an America free of…”. The structure of my poem is very strict; when writing Sonnets you need 14 lines, 10 syllabus in each line, and it needs to follow a ABABCDCDEFEFGG pattern of rhyme. As minorities I feel that it’s important to stick together through times of despair and stand with each other because together we are stronger.
"I love that you decided to write about a serious topic we don't really see that type of writing anymore and I'm glad that you chose this specific topic. It was beautifully written."
--Ximena Malpica