My Heat
Everybody in the group chat loved all the poems and songs that everybody came up with but they especially liked mine. Mine was called “In This World”. It focused on how this society profiled and how they looked at black lives today. They wanted mine to be the first one that we posted on Instagram and Snapchat.
My smile went from ear-to-ear when I heard they wanted to use mine first. As soon as they said they wanted to use it, I immediately posted it on Instagram and Snapchat. In less than two hours it got more than 100 views on Instagram and Snapchat. I went to Instagram and saw that ten people had already reposted it. I knew that it moved people when I saw all the comments about how many people liked the poem.
I thought to myself “It’s a good thing they posted mine first.” People have to know how young blacks feel about the police and how we think when we see this type of stuff happen to us. This is the ugly truth from the black youth that people have to hear.
My smile went from ear-to-ear when I heard they wanted to use mine first. As soon as they said they wanted to use it, I immediately posted it on Instagram and Snapchat. In less than two hours it got more than 100 views on Instagram and Snapchat. I went to Instagram and saw that ten people had already reposted it. I knew that it moved people when I saw all the comments about how many people liked the poem.
I thought to myself “It’s a good thing they posted mine first.” People have to know how young blacks feel about the police and how we think when we see this type of stuff happen to us. This is the ugly truth from the black youth that people have to hear.