Alarcon Healings

How many Black mothers collectively wept when the news of Tyre Nichols came out?
How many Black mothers heard their sons cry out for them?
How many Black mothers filled their hands in tears of memories of when they lost their babies this way too?
How many Black mothers remember the times their sons came home and they took a breath thinking, ‘thank god you’re home son.’
How many Black mothers over hundreds of years screamed that unforgettable scream of loss?

How many Black mothers must continue to hold the weight, and must continue to fight against a society so complicit with Black with genocide?

How many more will it take till yt america sees the roles they play in this erasure of Black people?

And who will hold these Black mothers in their grief?