Death by color

Another dozen killed and reported on the
second or third page of the paper.
Death toll rises steadily, like the stock market.

No one counts the Iraqi dead.
Soldiers weep in airports, saying goodbye
for the last time. No choices left for this life.

Federal Security agents are silenced.
To hide the truth of war
and terror we perpetrate on the world.

A child disappears from school,
awash in bruises. My son wonders
where he was taken.

White life upheld beyond recognition.
While we continuously perpetrate death on colored
skin, where are their court battles ?

I’m confused and dizzy, Should I spend my time
at the court house waving a flag? Stomach in a knot,
writing letters to editors, senators, congress?

Or should I teach my children peace
meditation, prayer, how to untie the knots.
Is this denial or a way to change the world

I don’t know much of anything anymore.