Audacity
Zamiyah Ben-Israel. 2/1/17
Audacity
With American stripes embedded in our backs
From welts of red to the fleshes of white
We’re outcaste
With the recipes of mammy
now in the hands of sanders
along with the molasses of jemima
We are bamboozled
When the attraction of our livelihood
Became wearable,That is when
We were mimicked
But still we rise...We rise into cabins of despair
And to the gospels of stockholm
How ironic, that we ONCE were
Stocks,bonded and sold into wallstreet were our foot stones still lie to this day
Left with no compensation.
“The american red stripes of blood,along with the fleshes of white are embedded in me”