it seems at the summit of black sovereignty and liberation
is to not have to battle white cruelty,
but white ignorance
to reap any semblance of peace and autonomy
and although the answer may seem obvious too many
appearing as not so much a choice but a gift
given the nature of both verbs-
cruelty or ignorance,
one implying an aggressive and nefarious guilty act
and the other, implicating a passive child-like innocence-
that I can only hope the free will and pleasure to choose from,
as if deciphering between shit and candy
but my conscious mind that yearns to question all things
can not help but to wonder
which is truly the best or worse of the sort
and is it a choice at all
or an…
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