Blackness
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Turmoil,
It’s a-a-a word all too familiar to me
The turbulent soul with hair like wood grain
Sometimes
Sometimes it’s more orderly, less entropic
Night, Darkness
and Black-
so many perspectives
so many interpretations...
like the owl-
here,
called tecolote, bu
an omen,
familiar of witches...
whereas in Europe,
Racism shouldn't have power, it should be powerless. Hatred should not be fruitful and allowed to multiply, the seeds it plants should be flowerless. If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.
It's like a shadow.
Falling beside me, but not on me.
Or in me.
"You're not mixed?"
They ask with a questioning smile on their face.
My Nana says she put her foot in them collard greens, so we better eat them all.
She says she was up at 6am slaving away over a hot oven so that we can enjoy this cookout feast.
But she ain’t gone do all the work herself now.
You're too angry,
these statements he said.
When he should have taken my hand
and asked me where it hurt.
Am I invisible to you?
You don't see me here?
My hips is wide
Black.
That's what they see first.
Black.
That's what they hear first.
Black.
That's what they touch first.
Black.
That's what they remember first.
. . . so hush, little baby
Baby, don't you cry. . .
Hey, Hey, now, Mr. Harvey!
Lookin' all sharp and sweet, you do, sir!
Yes, Sir!
O o o h. . .
growing up I was taught that the
straighter and more constraint my
hair was then the neater it looked
blow dry it, flat iron it and just put it
away
and why? because for some reason
“X Marked The Rocks”
The X in excellence seals your footsteps.
Stones trustworthy acts of strength.
The “King” was Our Shepard
Crown thee majesty honoring such grace.
I am probably death itself
I am probably going to kill everything in my path
I turn a mans red heart of kindness into a black hole of darkness
I see the blackness wrap itself around his heart
Your writhen thoughts had unexplainable august about them,
I wonder from what this could stem?
They have remarkable semblance to knotted fingers,
The way each twines into my mind and lingers,
Drawing me in,
Sleepless nights,wasted days run hand n hand,for a Blackman,
great unrest,as evil try to rule through out the land.
blood runs deep in the valley of oppression,caused by greed,selfish intent without confession.
Verse 1:
We taint the air with idle words
Cause sticks and stones hurt the most
What’s a jab to the bird?
What’s a duel to a roast?
Shoot….
Jesus looks like me
Her face is brown
Her neck is long
She cranes her head
Over the world
She watched behind
Red robes.
Her curly hair
Stands up high
It sings praises
I search endlessly into the dark abyss that is my heart.
Yearning for that one light, but as I run, grasping for it, the light begins to fade.
As I scream, crying out for it to stay... It vanishes.
All I see is blackness.
All my things jumbled
because the mind is not:
and I’ve nothing to reference,
so am I truly me?
It seems as though there is no end
Just continuous beginnings and outlasting inbetweens
Though we know the end must come, we stop and start again
Measure the distances from here to there
You can see the time passing
