PAD Challenge Day 17: Unapologetically Black
PAD Challenge Day 17: Write a reason
poem
Unapologetically Black
Please,
ask me why,
one
more reason why,
“Why are you proud to be
Black and Proud?”
Do
you not remember?
Or
is that, you don’t
care
to remember why?
The
history.
The
shame.
The
disgrace.
Put
upon this race.
Because
I can sweep off
the
rug and recall history-
the
greatest American
history
of all times,
that
can run-and-tell
it
all…to all like
a
Final Call.
I
know,
you
know
what
I know.
Those
years,
ahead
of our time,
that
I can consciously
and
emotionally define
while
you subconsciously
just
think today’s,
today
is just fine.
Nah…
My
DNA is still
conflicted
and restricted.
The
anguish and pain of
my
ancestors still hurt our genes.
The
separation and stripped down
from
the Motherland’s
sweetest
soil, honey, and milk
got
us all deprived……
it
has bruised my generational kin
and
skin, bruised it blacker than
the
berries that it taste sweeter than.
Nah…
This
black skin used to
get
hosed and spit on at sit-ins
It
used to get slaughtered,
stretched,
hanged, and sold like cattle.
It
used to decorate
Southern
Mahogany trees
with
strange fruit
It
used to abstract
Weeping
Willows
with
bloody teardrops
Fight
Jim Crow in streets,
on
school grounds,
at
corporations and shoppes.
And
it still gets hated on
by
Klansmen behind and
in
front of those sheets.
Nah...
Our
skin tones are
still
marching civically
bone
to bone,
skin
to skin,
trying
not to lose character
or
its identity to the hands
that
constantly crashed
the
Black Panther Party,
poisoned
the black minds
and
black bodies-
Tried
to terminate
the
black revolution
And
spoil the black
love
for the love
of
the people.
Nah…
The
Black Lives that Matter
will
say it loud,
“I’m black and I’m proud.”
These
are unlimited servings
to
this black empowerment.
No
other crowd can rock
Black Boy Joy
and
Black Girl Magic
loud.
This
is liberation in memory
of
the black dynasties.
This
is free strength
from
abandonment.
This
is not a black
scientific
experiment.
This
is black exhibiting love
for
the love of being black.
By
no mistake.
By
no mishap.
This
is no accident
This
is not black
faces
for an act.
This
is just me being
unapologetically
proud to be black.
D'ElegantOne
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