In this country’s marathon of human life,
panther hued sheep are always on the mark,
set and ready for the challenges of the lead
and erasers of the pencils of systemic racist
oppression.
Standing, walking, riding, driving, running
and just jumping around have become like
daily death sentences for people of color on
the tracks and fields and in the pits and pools
of daily life.
What would normally be pit-stops along the
road of life are now normal traffic-stops of death
by knees, arms, and loaded hands of whites that are
always in the right even when filmed in the bright light
of day or night.
Indeed, each day perpendicular to the ground is blessed
for we black-inked ones not yet parallel in the purgatory hole
of the daybreak that has not been seen in the olympiad arena
of today’s pontificated extravaganza of this country’s optimized
racist bigotry.
Today, the liquid spirit of liberation flows through the shadowed
seams of the weaving hope, faith, graciousness, and the vibing
H-Boult rhythms proudly spiking towards the tender revelations
of the tangible reality that Ray and Steavy saw sailing towards
the finishing line.
Never again will we sing an anthem of before I’ll be a slave, I’ll be
dead and buried in my grave and go home to be free; oh no!
I was born free—burst from the womb—flowing down the loins
of liberty; destine to freely participate in the reality of God’s
rainbow of colored life.
Oh no!—this time—ain’t nobody gonna turn us around;
for we have finally realized that the trophy of freedom—
liberation—has never been given freely; rather, it has always
been fought for on the decathlon battlefield of liberty. Thus,
sitting around waiting on the trophy to be given is bad; not
getting up and taking it is worst!
So let us hurdle and shadow my bad with I’m so glad Jesus
lifted me…singing glory alleluia…Jesus lifted me…and now I’m
on the battlefield of the Lord with wrinkleless hope in my soul’s
spirit; the trowel of faith in one hand and the breathing sword
of God’s liberty in the other!