RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GEORGE FLOYD SERIES
Oppression
Oppression is not a flash of lightning
The heavy hammer of abuse
It is not the swift slice of a sharp blade
Or the sting of pounding blow
Oppression is a dull throbbing ache
Always present never fading
Always building like waves of heat
Oppression never reaches its crescendo
With the end of day or the fall of night
Oppression is a constant haunting
Like the shadow of a thousand miseries
In a hospice or a funeral home
It is a pall that never lifts
A pain that has no remedy
A ghost in living flesh
To live with oppression
Is to be imprisoned without bars
In agony without relief
In perpetual apprehension
Of the days and nights ahead
Oppression in its purest sense
Is to be oppressor and oppressed
In an endless cycle of horror