Black Consciousness Poetry BCP Poems

Our skin of gold, sham
shamans claim our skin
bleeds Wealth, Gospel to
our kith and kin who suffer
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Your Smile is a force
that sway my sight.
My heart moves with
your rhythmic motion,
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I no longer walk her beautiful
landscape, I am a prisoner
in my own homeland, stripped
off my heritage, my culture.
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Black Zombies, spiritual bleached.
to be religious crucified on a ivory
cross.
Black bodies, biblical pages of unsung messiahs.
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The Bird in the cage
tweet and tweedle, sings
of hope every morning.
With a broken spirit and
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When the world around
us exist to reject our very
existence, distorts our
history and teaches us
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You never met yourself.
A voice in your head
rings, runnn! you ran away
from yourself why, a
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Dear Mother
We were born with fortunes for the future, that
were as gold, as precious as the new born's
laughter, never stop reminding us.
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I know of a youth who die of
cancer cause they won't read
the cigarette pack, who die of
Aids cause they are too drunk, too
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Dlozi lami ngifela izimvula
zezibusiso nezinhlanhla
ezivela esibhakabhakeni senu
Zulu omnyama, nithule
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