The most beautiful scenes
In nature
Are nurtured in me
Rhythms of drums
Work in me
Moving me
Like a memory
Programmed from times
Forgotten
Before I was even begotten
Wisdom from ancestors
Taught in
Places far away
Nature’s incenses… Read the rest
A stolen people
With a stolen past
Made into a lowly caste
A separate class
Kidnapped from
Our homeland
By slavers
Made captive labor
In a no-man’s land
Our histories
Disrupted
Our cultures corrupted
Excluded from Amerikkka
For generations
Kept … Read the rest
Bear witness
To Amerika’s fear
When niggas unafraid
Of pulling triggers draw near
It’s clear
That power in their eyes
Means keeping people of color
Divided and terrorized
This is why
By means open and subliminal
They keep a state … Read the rest
Not an accident of nature
Nor a mere symptom
But a creature made
In the image of the system
A snake with
A lethal bite
A selfish worshipper of wealth
With a ravishing appetite
Time and again condemned to die… Read the rest
Taught to imitate those
who disparage and berate us
Call ourselves names
they created to degrade us
Partner with those
who defiled our wives and daughters
As though we’re cleansed
by swimming in septic waters
We’ve become remixes of their … Read the rest
This remembrance
is in honor of Kiilu
We never met
but comrade I know and feel you
A revolutionary forged
in the crucible of action
Vowed to become
a woman George Jackson
Trained and mastered
Wu Shu Kung Fu
Kept … Read the rest
