Ring around nigger
Rope around his fingers
Ashes, ashes
Bring em all down
Ring around the rosey
Originated from a devastating plague that infected European Middle ages also known as black
death
Black death has been affecting the African American community for a lifetime and a forever
I find black death to be extremely difficult, see
Ring around the rosie
refers to the red and purple found on the skin,
the same way George Floyd’s face went red with an officer kneeling on his head
How black turns blue, turns white, into red
Ring has been around our necks, for years metaphorically, physically
A pocket full of posies
refers to the way people would try to fend off the plague
They fill they pocket with flowers until they wither away
Death seems to love us more than life, you can tell
Breonna Taylor’s grave is covered in flowers
as the memory of her death is slowly disappearing
Ashes ashes
the dead was cremated, spread around like a wildfire
Black bodies spread like ornaments on trees
Spreading the ashes was considered a tradition, a celebration
They all fall down
All black bodies must fall.
By gun.
By knee.
By assumption.
By whites who cannot police their emotions.
I was taught about lynchings early.
About police brutality.
About how spiteful people can be.
about black bodies dropping dead.
I Think about the posies.
The flowers.
And I ask why the most gorgeous people die.
How in a garden.
We pick the most beautiful flowers of all?
Ring around the rosies
Pocket full of posies
Ashes, Ashes
They all fall down.