Under The White Man Poem by Black Consciousness Poetry BCP

Under the white man, the black man is a prisoner of war.
He lost the battle for land and now his home is no more.
His language & culture is conquered. His body and spirit
is injured.
He is sick, he is not sure, he is off shore, with no army, no weapons & no war ships to break his chains.
He worships the same man who puts him in chains.
He has gone insane
He is in the synagogue, the mosque and the churches.
He wants to pray his chains away.
He's taking chances everyday.
He's in pains; he's in chains.
Invisible mental chains.
And so he chants, he marches, he's a politician.
He even wears a suit in parliament and speak so
loud...and yet still in his speech the truth remains
in chains.
He's on a search to re-dignify the black race
He's looking for freedom in the wrong place.
In the constitution and the freedom charter
he finds more tightening chains.
He is on the edges.
He even took a chance in the elections
to vote for change.
And still no chance for the chains to
be unchained
And so he remains in chains.

|Mufasa|