No To Chokehold Poem by Hebert Logerie

Chokehold is execution
Chokehold is strangulation
It is a death sentence in action
It is an aberration
It is killing, causing death
It is stopping breath
Going in the lungs and in the brain
It is torture, suffering and pain
We can't breathe
We want to live
We don't want to die
We don't want to die
We can't breathe
We want to live
Chokehold is fatal
Chokehold is criminal
Chokehold is deadly
No to police brutality
No to white supremacy
No to conspiracy
Chokehold is murder
Black lives matter
Chokehold is a grave sin
Chokehold causes great pain
No to brutal murder
Black lives matter
No to escalation
No to degradation
Chokehold must be illegal
No to funeral
No to violence
No to intolerance
No to cruelty
No to barbarity
No to atrocity
No to ferocity
No to savagery
No to inhumanity
No to suffocating
No to smothering
No to hanging
No to lynching
No to racial profiling
No to asphyxiating
No to unnecessary killing
No to water boarding
Life is too precious
This is too obvious
No to drowning in the streets
For almost nine minutes
No to injustice
Yes to justice and peace
No to premature death
Yes to a wonderful life.

Copyright © June 2020, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.