Holloway - Ma**acre by Michelle Dodd (Interlude) lyrics

[Poem: Michelle Dodd] Time will not be on our side As long as the skin we are in isn't considered human We're not trees who's braches bow in the wind We're strong like the ancestral blood running through our veins Trust me when I say, tears are not red They cannot run through our veins as if, to give us our lives back They fear us because they think the human in us is more animal than anything else The streets are littered with shell casings We can't even make it home anymore There is agony the air, on corners, everywhere There are hauntings on sidewalks, block by block They haven't stopped, they haven't slowed down There aren't enough fingers to hold our people's name with They were pulled out from our mouths like exit wounds If we move, we get shackled If we stay still, stay silent, time will not be on our side