We're Blacks! Poem by Ahamad Ilyaas Vilayathullah

We're Blacks,
seven times smarter…
Pale white
intolerant racists, you!
You can never beat
the brunt and wrath
of the Blacks…
Nor are we prepared to bear
your burden any longer.

You betrayed us
into captivity,
enticing us with
bangle pieces and broken mirrors…
Us you rounded up,
bound, shipped, sold in the market,
enslaved and converted
to your religion…
You turned us into
what we were not…
Today, you strangle us
and ensure our breathless death!

You're pale white
for your deadly crimes…
Yet, you built prisons and dungeons for us
and filled them with us Blacks!

The breath that stuck
in George Floyd's throat
was our life breath!
We aren't going to be
controlled any longer,
not a bit in your buckled straps!
We'll cause the white walls
of your white house have cracks…
Its pale white walls're whitewashed
with the white man's crimes!
We'll draw pictures on those white walls
with the black man's blood that you spilled…
Sure, the black pearls will
Draw pictures on them!

We'll crucify the devil's world order
the racist Trump and the Casteist Modi
joined hands to create!
Yes, we, the seven times smarter
children of the Blacks
and the siblings of the low-born
you crushed on the railroad tracks!

Malcolm X has opened up for us
the road to the truth,
the justice assured path of
the only one god,
the road shed with the daybreak light,
the path George Floyd failed to notice
and pitiably missed out,
the path Guru Narayanan, Ayyankali,
Sahodaran Ayyappan and even Ashan
praised and admired,
the path Leopold Weiss, Cassius Clay, Michael Wolfe
and several others hugged,
the world acclaimed golden path of brilliant light
that the darling messenger of god
showed to Bilal whose supine back
the desert sands roasted and burned,
the path Ammar, Yasir and Sumayyah
cherished with the blood of their hearts!

Today, we know for sure
the path that strengthened the fists
and straightened the spine of the low-born,
the one that gave voice to their tongues,
the one that offered a prop
to the oppressed and the persecuted,
the glorious path of liberation!
We know, for sure, today
the path Muhammad, the messenger of god
left open before us!


We aren't going to be
controlled any longer…
Nor can you finish us off any more
crushing our heads under your wheels.
The fox burrows that you have dug and kept ready
will not hide you for long…
We'll not bear you any further,
you foolhardy blockheads!
Rebuild, we'll, this world
the way that the big-soul,
the messenger, the pearl of mankind,
the light of the world, showed us and led!
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