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   Social learning theory

   social learning theory
   (Derrion Albert)

   there is no angle, approach, or theory
   that tends to the hearts
   fallen on forgotten streets
   they lay there long after bodies have been collected
   broken
   in suspended loss
   outliving the children who walk by

   trees from which we were hung
   paved over
   turned into communities
   graveyards with no fences
   home
   where death and struggle are badges of honor
   destroying
   that which ties us together

   we are not yet civilized
   they say
   we model the violence
   that was, and is, inflicted on us
   the world
   perfecting the twisted lessons of internalizing
   hatred and violence
   beating ourselves
   to give the pain back
   to someone
   i say

   our children are not well
   they are dead
   dying
   aware of the glass walls
   not yet focused on the ceiling
   still, laughing under the sun
   until they are gone
   we have learned all to well
   to
   hold
   it together
   while we are
   f a l l i ng
   apart
   as if waiting for the perfect child to die
   upsetting the false order of death
   while
   every child who dies is a perfect example
   of a society gone brutally wrong

   they are so small and cold
   mostly black and brown
   and
   dead
   we are responsible
   this is not a theory
   babies are not really smiling at you
   they are modeling the action of the joy we give back
   when we smile at them
   smiling at us
   children are really killing children
   they are modeling the destruction we cause
   leaving broken hearts in the streets
   where life continues
   in a painful way
   that interrupts our dreams
   splitting us from our true selves
   ourselves
   where we would never live through the death of our children
   daily
   this is not a theory

   the eyes of any child
   beg to be wrapped in safety and love
   not so tight that they cannot see
   but close enough to live and explore
   we cannot hold the hand of a dead child
   but
   we can fall back in love with ourselves
   demanding the futures
   of our children
   there is no angle, approach, or theory
   that tends to the hearts
   fallen on forgotten streets
   they lay there long after bodies have been collected
   broken
   in suspended loss
   outliving the children who walk by

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