it seems like such a long time since the mass building of railroads
opiates, grains of rice, and the Rockefellers
but welcome back to the mainstream hate, bigotry, and prejudice
White America never forgot who you were to them
you just may have forgot who you were to them
they were just usually too consumed with pummeling us is all
us, as in, Black America
and you may benefit from the ground hours we already put in for you
because we never had the benefit of a break, so we never forgot
but never fear, they’re reminding you
I’m sorry you’re shocked
but swallow your pre-workout formula of protesting and get your practice in
so you can join back in the game of American life and the minority/melanin experience
they’ll hear you, but will not listen
the laws are just for perception sake, for you to get it all out of your system
you know, the right to assemble, freedom of speech, equality for all etc.
after while, they’ll see to it that you get tired of talking to a wall
and they’all expect you to give up long before they do
after all, shit rolls down the hill and you are fighting uphill
that disadvantage will never tilt, and the day, if it shall ever happen to get close to a tilt towards a balance
then be wary of that day, because this is nothing
nothing but practice
but don’t take it personal, they know nothing else
on the evolutionary scales, they are still children
only knowing how to take in order to have
and they will take from their selves as quick as they would you
you can almost do nothing against that kind of barbarism
so don’t take it personal, they’d do better if the knew better…I think?
Love/Hate Relations
I love culture
I love language
I hate color
I hate age
I love features-
because I love seeing,
I hate preachers-
I have my reasons,
I embrace teachers
that embrace teaching that they can be taught
I hate positions-
I came from the bottom
I hate English-
mine is never understood
I hate authority-
you do not know me
I hate the police-
you can’t control me,
I hate politicians-
they prey on my people,
they prey on the people
they’re paid to be evil, deceitful, cerebral, and lethal
I hate religion-
I don’t need cathedrals
the prey on the people
they preyed on my people
they pray but mislead you
I love art
I love music
I love dancing
I love bodies-
I love all of its movements
I love movements-
change is influence
change is life
I love plants-
embrace the high
I love wine-
I’m feeling fine
I love relations
but I hate ships-
they enslaved my people
America continues to say, f#You!
how can our democracy be the moral police of the world
and our laws be just and equal in their protection
yet our government created by the people, for the people
continue to act in the favor of one group of people
especially in its retributive acts once another group of people have social and economic gains
it only serves to narrow the gap and even out the scales of opportunity, privilege, equal rights, and protection
how can our system work to limit the disadvantaged
creating more disadvantages,
still telling the lie that ‘we are better than this’
that our system-its structure-
and the institutions within it are ‘just’
and those that enforce them are ‘just’,
yet it only works to serve interests, privilege, and subjugation over darker pigmented people and nefariously created urban communities
no, we aren’t better than this…this is just who we are
so I’m not surprised, and matter of fact,
I need to stop saying ‘we’
because America does a great job of separating itself from me,
isolating me to fend for myself against its predatorial system
I’m no citizen, I’m a casualty of war-
a by-product of oppression
a token of subjugation
an object of disdain
and a criminal by design
fuck you America!
stop lying to your people!
At least Georgia doesn’t hide its intent
it doesn’t tell us to shut up, it just changes laws to shut us up
while laws on criminal reform take generations-
as it ‘takes,’ generations
Deliverance
delicious desires
desecrating my divinity
diluting my dignity
destroying my pallid with its overloaded stimulation of carnality
desires may be my destruction
but oh, oh my sweet goodness
have I always been such a sucker for delectable and deluxe desserts that both demonstrate and deliver my do’s, don’t’s, and delayed doom
Evolved Light
inside my lair of reasons and unknowns-
deep as the ocean floor’s fluorescent inhabitants-
there are secrets, hopes, dreams, and well wishes
adorned by an insatiably hungry darkness
and like these see-through seafloor creatures,
I too, have had to evolve into my own light
so I can see
so I can survive
so the things inside my lair can thrive in the light
What Type of Time You On?!
this is the dark, where they hide light
protect your heart, hind, and blindside
because war is the highlight
your ceiling is a twilight
and your floor is full of blind mice
there is no fistfights, only knife fights
fight for your life fights
before you can fight for your rights,
you have to fight for your likes,
for the end of each night,
where you can die or take life flights
you ride like a knight, align sides-
comprised with your might-
to describe and define size
ties cosign time
pied pipe, and lies lobotomize,
dried eyes, cries will compromise life
you can’t hide, only disguise and rise like-
climbed heights,
time in the limelight, will assign hype
and pay with your life, because life is the right price
because this time, is the ride or you die type