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Since, those of your man+kind of people
Not identifiable by color of skin…
Those who demonstrate character, by whim…
Those, whose prejudice does not begin,
Merely by next of kin… or racial purity, royal pedigree,
Other than familial history, circumstantial heredity
Having no qualms making slavery…
an imperial business deal…
Has deaf ears to the pain and suffering
Of the subjects of their sub-judication
No more than a chickens squawk,
or a stuck pigs squeal
Punish you for your views…
shoot you twice in the head…
And move on to the next…
maybe, plant evidence
Watch you die, bleeding
nobody asked...
what best might satisfy your needs…
To give your best self
…to the world,
Grow to love, to live
…and breathe
Not to be stuck playing a role…
Some noble unsung hero
Placed by fate …in a position
in unenviable conditions…
Stuck in a rut
turned inside out and sideways…
Hanging by extreme effort,
under intense pain
Losing concentration, fading
in and out of consciousness,
Gazing over the edge of a precipice
…with little hope, while… holding on sheer will
…on borrowed time…
Harder the work,
lesser the compensation…
Controlling your access
…to food, housing, medication
Leave you, few an avenue for entertainment…
For your whole life… under subjugation,
Under control… facing incarceration…
Wait, there’s a way out, it seems
Sell the devil your soul…
Say, goodbye to your dreams
Hungry, tired, sore… same old story
Builds character… until you die…
Whether with a whimper…
or a blaze of glory
You choose…
either way, you lose…
Hung, by the neck, electrocution,
Lethal injection …bullets …or gas…
Crime only pays, if you’ve got it that way
Sold your soul
…now, your hard times are history
If the devils your lawyer,
you live easy, for free
…until, judgment day…
Which, by the way…
comes, unbelievably fast
The devils only true promise is the lie
In the fine print… in the first and last lines
Noble, my ass… are you truly so blind?
Nothing is gained, in fading into
The last fleeting shadows,
Of your lost mind
Meanwhile, as eternal life... goes on
Connecting those who came before…
To those, you’ve now left behind.
Your legacy,
serves as a reminder to some…
a blinder, to others…
As your story lives of without you,
By those touched by your presence
Falling off the ledge of civility, into…
Fits of foolishness, or mercenary actions
in… losing thy true identity,
child of god…
For what fortunes profit others,
exclusively…
My will to be …surrendered,
for another’s
view of my his story
my story, always
hidden in between
the very same lies
being told about me
under siege
Unable to compete,
Lost… and alone…
For far too long…
used,
beat down…
and abused...
To give others
mistaken identity
more vitality
Supporting ruthless acts,
you'd expect of an enemy
Project …and extend, reject
and pretend …justice
Is being served,
when… transgressions
continue to rain down
upon us supposedly
alleged, by those whose authority
shrouded in veils of shadows deep…
reinforced by patterns of deception
dream sequences practiced,
even in their sleep
…kept vital by ritual sacrifice
on the full moon
Triggered by a swarm
of hatred and indifference
An arrangement
of pseudo-legal jurisprudence,
which…shields them
from prosecution,
Making an art form
of pilfering and insurrection
furthering the distance
from the whole truth…
escaping vengeance…
by intricate lies…
almost flawlessly arrayed,
at near perfectly constructed
and engaged webs of deceit,
performed
by expertly trained masters of distraction,
mastering in a series of ruses
...simplified, illusions...
In lieu of the protection
we of all people deserve
Taxed into compliance…
as if it were… the Holy verb
Against which our solemn hymns…
Raised voices …and solemn moans
Elevate our hopes and prayers
To a place… free
from further distance
from the truth
Taking us to a place
…we can both relate
Before mother earth
gets screwed by father time
And our dreams
of and equal place
Get bludgeoned by fate
And the muse of alternate views
makes fake news
The next wave of a pandemic
of spreading hate
The new… evolution
of demon-ocratic…
principles
Hoax… ation, beyond belief
Perpetrating
the latest conniption of… Hell…
Reigning down fresh from the beast
a pimped version
some called conservative principles
Perpetuating the lie…
Invincible/superiority
BULL!!!
…Why else, would someone
…ALWAYS, stack the deck…
Make no mistake,
Those of you
who can still relate…
Those who have
the wherewithal to realize
The circumstantial evidence,
common sense provides
…truth took a vacation,
devil’s taking you for a ride
While the whole congregation
went out looking for fate
Like a horny virgin… on the first date
reality …arriving on cue…
salvation, long overdue,
long since passed beyond
…its expiration date,
Timed precisely,
inherently matched,
although
diametrically opposed,
aligned …with fate,
same old side dish…
a borrowed heaven
…just a back room
of someone else’s Stolen tomb
Make their life ...great...
Forever, servant…
fooled into believing
Your truer version of what it is
…to be sanctified
With a side dish of willful sacrifice…
As opposed to the others view of things
Things, you’d never do…
Spreading lies, demanding tithes
Holding them for ransom
on their very lives
Come time to elevate ourselves…
let the people rise
Cast off the mental ties,
instead of staying put
Stuck in the same old rut
trying to make excuses
Why’s and why, not
When you look into their eyes
Stop the …and/or, buts’
to criticize when they
Act surprised… when you say
it hurts, when…
Sacred grounds
…meet holy words, imagined...
Whenever the natural rise
of men and women of color...
would occur…
Despite the fact they'd endure
the indignity
Of serving
without their needs ...being served...
Imagined them... getting out of place...
Their solution ...hate... Death...
Intentional suffering, creating distrust
And spreading ...confusion
We must...
Allow those
whose sacrificial efforts
proved worthy...
Speak to our hearts,
as we... Too, must
Do our best to understand...
the task at hand...
And Continue,
in
…the struggle...
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