In the beginning
We were the architects
Of God’s designed world;
Then came them—
The devastating forces
Of its Garden Of Eden
Decline:-
We were the flowers
And fruits of the Garden;
Then they became
The slithering and coiling
Slime of disobedience
And disrespect:-
We were chosen
To teach cross-bearing
With the Bearer thereof;
Then they—save Mark–
Tried to leave out
Our Simon Of Cyrene hue:-
As you read, my children,
Listen to these 82+ years
Old screaming words:
We must know that Ourstory here,
Did not begin with their slavery!
They just lyingly implicated this
In the fecal canvassing
Of their diuretic history:-
While we remain
The crucified oppressed,
And they the crucifiers,
Realize our Ancestors
Ensured that we would be
Today’s resurrected ones;
Overcoming and ascending
Memorial total liberation:-
Thus, it is, between them
And us in waning oppression
And waxing liberation;
We ascending the mountaintop,
Not as children of Sisyphus;
But the ebony-hued ones
Of the Liberator:-