- Jessica Norman
The Worth of a Life
Updated: Aug 20, 2020
What is a life worth?
What is the worth of a life?
Why is hers worth less
And his worth more
Than mine and yours?
Why do some
Stand proud and cold in stone
That weathers storms
When others are left —
Un-statued and un-formed —
To dissolve
Into the past?
Why do some deserve more tears
More rage
Deserve to last?
When will we mourn and shout and rage for all?
When will we learn to unlearn
What has come before
And stop bartering in flesh:
Trading differences skin-deep?
Please, no more.
All lives are worth fighting for.
None is worth less:
And the only thing of which we can be sure
Is that there is one end for all:
Darkness.
And nothing more.
#blacklivesmatter #blackwomenslivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #nojusticenopeace
