Say It Aint So Poem by Mustafa Marconi

Storm clouds on the horizon
Hurricanes building momentum
Along the eastern shores
The weather beaten masses
Huddle under battered, hand woven shelters
Say it, ain’t so brother, say it ain’t so


Military conflicts every hour,
Every minute, every second of everyday
Since the moment I was conceived
Through 7 continents, hundreds of nations
In cities big and small
The casualty count:
Civilians millions - soldiers thousands
The world at war revisited
Say it ain’t so brother, say it ain’t so


The Berlin Wall shattered
Germany once again a world power
Democracy gaining worldwide momentum
While Americans are forfeiting their freedom
A battle against abortion
For the reversal of Roe-us-Wade
For the nullification of the Equal Rights Amendment
Right to work equals right to suffer
Indignities, racism, economic terrorism and
Premeditated and brilliantly calculated genocide
Say it ain’t so brother, say it ain’t so


The propaganda blitz continues
Hip hop gangsters, cold blooded killers,
Thieves and muggers
Welfare, drugs, guns and violence
Words associated with people of color
Thus every nation hand will be against yours
And your hand shall be against every nation
And who controls the keys to heaven and hell
But those who hold their own fate in hand
Have we mortgage out future
For temporary thrills of victories
Say it ain’t so brother, say it ain’t so


Born a pauper will die a pauper
The heavy weight of countless stigmas
Bears as heavy on our backs
As snow on the wings of a dove
Born to die, so that one must
But only under one’s term
As a man - pauper or not
Educated or not
Huddled under scared and battered shelters
Standing proud and firm
And if the hand deceives us, cut it off
For it is better to lose a hand
Less the whole body perish in hell
Branded and stereotyped by words association
A media motivate by sales, ratings
And an intricate pattern of fear manipulation
Remove the crosshairs from my head, my dear brother
Hold not each other hostage
In our enemies war games
Or shall we endangered species perish
Say it ain't’ so brother, say it ain’t so