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Human Heart MAG
Gun Shot
The bang rings out
Like a pebble thrown in water
Ripples collide
Slamming eardrums
Blood explodes
A life is lost
The blood is red
The life is human
But the skin is brown
The time is slavery
Or yesterday
Or 500 years ago
The time doesn't matter
And the killer says
The blood doesn't matter
The life doesn't matter
The skin matters
Gun shot
The bang rings out
Like a pebble thrown in water
Ripples collide
Slamming eardrums
Blood explodes
A life is lost
The blood is red
The life is human
But the skin is white
And people care
That can be yesterday
Yesterday is gone
Tomorrow
When a gunshot rings
And ripples like
A pebble in a pond
It's time to ask
Not the skin
But the heart
And the life
And the humanity
But not
And the skin is brown
And the skin is white
And the skin is asian
And the skin is hispanic
But the human heart.
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i wrote this for the i matter contest, which i found under contests in ti.