Friday, January 13, 2012
THE COLORED MIND
Her breath,choked by bureaucracies,exhales a story of turbulent seas
rough and telling more than jenny sees
taking it back to Genesis where it all started
like Greek myth,before the flood of Noah,not Ramsey
at the destruction of patsies the ones that got blessed not lucky and got saved
descendants of the mercies of the Almighty
from the loins of Kish,
down generations of inventors,traders and scholars
to the first universities in her young epicenter
worriors and strategists
emperors and pharaos
to a dark worn out shell of memories vile
those that have her tears flowing north
tears her children called the Nile,
tears never enough to wash the bile
as her children were led away in single file
her core, robbed of resource diamond and gold
the knowledge and books stolen and sold
the next generation held in a fold
introduced to the slave-ship phenomenon on waters so cold
their tough hands reduced to picking soft cotton
the same one which eventually made the white T that the young colored male is enslaved to
her dirge decries the failed state of affairs,
the states stuck in arrears,
the masks a statesman wears
the war instigators
diabolical agitators
sadistical dictators
political conspirators that her dear sons turned into,
the toxic bug of foreign influence that had brothers at arms;not in each others arms embracing,
wars full of foreign artillery which no one stops to ask from whence it came before fire engaging
and pulling the trigger
paranoia caused by mindsets disfigured
a people lost
brainwashed by populist theories at what cost?
The land being robbed as the few successful minions toast
boast and say prosit
while the rest wallow and roast
thinking what the bunch of angry farmers fighting for their land brought was independence
yet still they drown in dependence
not absolving themselves in repentance
slaves of their own mind fueled by prejudices from their own kind
judging by skin-tones and hair they find
not as kinky or a little more silky than their perceptions can accept...
Pointless wrangles and tangles that make mama bleed from the side
the Congo river symbolically where Jesus got stabbed before he died
as she hopes for tomorrow,AFRICA knows the hardest part of hope is the wait.
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