PAD Challenge Day 1 (Two-for-Tuesday): "Best of Times" and “Worst of Times”.

PAD Challenge Day 1 (Two-for-Tuesday): Write a "Best of Times" poem, and/or write a “Worst of Times”.

 

Best of times

Growing up

Saturdays were golden times

Teena Marie was square biz

And mom’s hotcakes were

the hottest to melt Country Crock butter

Confirmation of my adolescence transformation

Something smaller can make

something large and fluffy a delight

Simple enhancements without too much alteration

I, too, can be butter

To a good ole fashioned world

A good source of energy

Smooth enough to activate

the brilliance off the top of my head

Rich enough to add more flavor to history

Be essential to the vision my ancestors left for me to see

That a little drizzle added to the best of both worlds

never really could hurt anybody

 

Worst of Times

Could it be found at 

the Door of No Return?

A forced, freedom-less ride

along one of the 36,000 voyages,

To create the greatest Americas’ horror film?

Could it be the system itself?

The core of dehumanization,

the becoming of property

status to white men.

A milk factory and maid of honor

to white women and her children.

Maybe it was the sun

burning the black off the

backs of my people.

Or the cotton burs,

pricking and scratching

their fingers

dying to scream 

freedom, justice and liberty

down the halls of plantations

where human rights were just

as silent as the culture they killed too. 

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