Sunday, February 18, 2018

Retribution ~ Saturday, 18 February 2018

It takes just one person
to spoil a good party
or ruin someone's night

Still you persist problem
child you remain present
for whom I must account

If your question evades
my sense of dignity
you dig my grave to steal

The very pungent corpse
you believe worth value
money pleasure despite

Being dead rattle bag
of bones as the question
you ask acts like a spear

Enter the racist world
black against the brown man
the difference a few shades

Conceive of history
as against your people
from whom do you descend

Are you really black man
were all your ancestors
black ask for a recount

Understand this my friend
I think you ask of me
this question as I peel

So many layers past
of genetic false pride
like Henry Louis Gates

Even if you believe
you are the one black man
who laughs while others share

In your pointed humor
the institutional
racism you see degrades

Murders sends off to war
draft cards in hand locks up
in prisons to pretend

Black people are worthy
only to live as slaves
of a system whose rules

Lack their favor I see
you ask little boy blue
if the big bad wolf eats

As many white children
as she does black children
listen to the three fates

Chew the bones of women
children and men they rape
in institutions schools

Killers like yourself walk
the streets drive fancy cars
your purpose seeks defeat

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