A Poem: The Whole Truth And Nothing But ..
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- Published: Thursday, 18 July 2013 14:03
For The Children … Let’s be real
They say to keep smiling
stay strong and keep the peace
But I live in a world that says I don’t matter
in slippery ways too hard to pin down
“Don’t be weak and wipe your tears” they say
“and stop playing the race card when you don’t get your way”
So today, I pray
for the light to see thru the day
and the strength to move this shit out my way
They say, “why you can’t rise like all them other guys?
Why you gotta rob, cheat and steal?”
as if they didn’t steal everything to get here
the most murderous, irreverent fools of all
preaching ethics & morality
after they get through, even the planet may never recover
what chance have we mere mortal sons & daughters?
The reigning champions Profit & Propaganda
shiny objects rule .. and you can own one too!
We are always in season and if they could get away with
mounting our heads on their walls
they would
and maybe
they do
somewhere
My heart went numb when I heard the word
that crazy guy who hunted Tracy & Sybrina’s boy down
walked away with his gun and a smile
No remorse about taking the
life of a child
and none expected
He was just a fat white man who couldn’t do no better than to bring a gun
to a fist fight
but wait
was that what it was?
I coulda swore I heard that crazy guy hunt that boy down with my own ears
Any fool could discern
the chilling cries of a child screaming for his life
heard on more than a couple police recordings
Somehow that all disappeared … erased from the air
and the good citizens who first
heard Trayvon, felt blood-curdling
Trayvon screaming in the wind
were asked to kindly shut up please
Their testimony could do nothing to fix
the broken sounds of a broken system
The system with a story to tell
a meme where you don’t matter and never have
no matter how many elections you win
Another child takes the stand so we
can make fun of her speech.
Even though she speaks 3 languages
and was the last one to hear her friend’s voice
it don’t matter and we prove it everyday
by what we choose to say
and don’t say … like “i love you”
But chin up y’all! Life goes on …
nothing new to see here
in fact
things are better than before
when it was always the season for strange fruit
and you couldn’t get rich by calling your mother, sister, daughter
bitches & hoes
isn’t it?
You got your Benz now and can drive it anywhere you want
pretty much
You can pay top dollar to advertise for the top designers
and keep up the facade of
chin up!
At least you’re better than your neighbor. What a loser!
Don’t forget we can be bought
They won’t
And when we whine and moan
haunted and undone at every turn
they’ll divide us
easily
with tainted juries, real housewives & football
with the dollar that has ruled
for a short time
yet damaged enough souls to fill a millenium
You think race rules but the only color that matters is green
and as long as they keep us fighting over colors
They win
and we fall further under the boots
on our necks
but we will get out the last word
to scream at each other how justified we are in our painful moments
more painful than yours of course
ours is no different to me
it’s mine
and you don’t matter
as long as that’s the story
they win
we lose
nothing new
until each one of us
gets a clue