Steeped
deep
behind my
self-imposed
eyelid
shut
blackness
I hear the
ancestral rush of
Hemoglobin life force
pumping
rhythmically
A connection to a culture
rich,
ignorant to its
genetic structure
Sensing the bungee cord
harness
tied to the edge of
collective
intelligence
Ambivalence is coerced
by the cost of
acceptance
In my darkness I
at once
identify with
every brown
variety of generational
experience
It is injected
cellularly
and it stays there,
it's true home
Laying claim to
dysfunction and greatness
at once
Djembe pulses
feed,
energize my
consciousness
Empathetic
to the core
Tribal unity
stringing to the
Universe
To the
One
Swaying
articulately
Linguistic footwork
springing my soul
to the bruising
sun
Skin kissed
passionately
by the sun
By the Son
The Euphrates
reach
pales
in significance
and
comparison
A continental
symmetry
unable to be
undone
An assertive will
stifled
by the threat of
antiqued
bayonets
rifles
pistols
intimidation and
whips
Or is it arrogance
Regal and noble
Arrogance
Cause,
the fight for right
was based on
resounding
entitlement
Rights denied
recovered
violently
or through
civility and coached
Peace
The resulting
birth
gestated from
the collective
scream to be seen
Human
It, also,
embraces
the willful
failure
as the game is played
to determine who has
won
My visual
solitude
defines
on those terms
A visage
coated in a
racial beingness
wrought with
injustices
Just because
Screwed up reasoning
spawns
distorted images
of equanimity
Seeking ownership
with or without
brows moist
with effort
Judging
Balancing
Arbitrarily
Ghettos
blighted
with extreme
indifference
Turning a community
beacon
into a
chemically
enhanced
hive
Raping resources
bare and
achingly
raw
Unsanitary healing
developing infected
scabs
An unsavory
cost
Hovels of comfort
spiraling inward
cued with
swan song
motivations
Seduced by
exceptions
held in a higher light
Symbols of
advancement
Correct stature
Dialects of
integrity
compromised
Tongues as tools
toward
upward mobility
Prominence
Prestige
Power
All celebrated illusions
Identity theft by
surreal
suburban nightmares
Priceless
or priced more
possessions
imprisoning and
liberating at once
Proud
Prideful
Pontifications
Pointing
People
to foreign standards
of acceptability
Necessary
DNA
associations
fueling my very life
Opened eyes
awake to living
Suffering shocks
Betrayal
each time
as I glance
at my mirrored
reflection
and re-discover that my
epidermal representation
is
so
damn
white
~ D²,7.04.14,8: 23 AM
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem