If Sango were in my shoes Lightening will shred dark skies Thunder will accompany whimpering cries He will strike and strike and strike again Till all culprit freeze in death Yet the bereaved must feast They must dance and throw a feat No one cries to Sango vengeance beats Oba k’oso, Hurler of stones Your […]
Downstream The sacred tears of angels flow Into rapids barren of love Downstream The blood of the innocent falls Into sacrificial bowls of violence Downstream The waterfalls of fleshy reaper Descend souls into heavens of hell Downstream The torrents of life Reverses tide on the hill of chaos Downstream The avalanche of gods Moves glaciers […]
Justice keeps taking scarlet tans On hues of dark curly hairs than- Than hues brunette or blonde or straight Dying black men is stale of taste Justice left for greener pastures Pledging to coins, pledging to coy Innocence’s a pawn of chess toy Lusting for greedy overtures Who shall serve justice to the courts Of […]
Forgive? Yes, Forget? No! Too many roses have stained history’s snows Blunted arrows and broken bows But forgive me must Shall we forget when the noose hung From the hate that produced The hate that hate produced? Convince the Jews of Sobibor With a nice tailored speech And kin-less chicks of the hawk’s screech? Ignorance […]
I see men hovering around Sweating and bolstering to make you smile! Like the ants invading my moustache For imprints of sweets you left on my lips Their voices whispering appraising beauty of you Hope the heavens are not bankrupt It seems you emptied it’s glittering vault As before you now, all angels are flawed […]
We shall overcome We shall overcome Someday O! Deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome someday! . Sometimes I wonder why the someday of This Negro spiritual cannot be today Such spirited people high on hope Yet they only saw the promise Through the tainted telescope of crude imagination Like a meteor […]