Leaves for Trees

Leaves for Trees

Leave

I Do and I smile

I Care and I watch

I’m already gone

Almost there

As long as I leave

Leave

It consumes me 

Every breath

I leave

Noone sees

But I’m not me

I look 

I feel

And it’s not me

Every day 

Another failure

Another mistake

A lifetime of mistakes

Just

Leave

Get help

Can’t help

But how 

Help is for white people

They’ll only help me into a cell

There’s no compassion for brown skin

Help myself

Little by little

Addicted to feel

The rope

The choke

Steel my spine

Leave 

Soon

There was a lucky tree at my house

Four hung

Four survived

I did too

Even though my tree wasn’t lucky

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