I AM WE (2025) by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

I am not me
I am We
without which
I cannot be
cannot be free
even if I could go
wherever I desired to be
a warrior’s life
belongs to the people
individualism is evil
feeble
not equal
with an army of one
no victory is achievable
I am We
is a verb
an action word
an Afrikan proverb
before the Arabs or Europeans
came
with their class aims
religious names
and slavery
We were all the same
one clan
one woman and man
united we stand
not all for one
but all or none
a people of the sun
how we had begun
harken back to the time
before the middle passage
across a horrid sea
before they claimed to be masters
when We were free
oh how we long for things
to be
the way they were
when We could all see
that there was no me
just I am We

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