Zamiyah Ben-Israel.                                                                                  2/1/17

 

       

 

                                      Audacity

 

             With American stripes embedded in our backs

                  From welts of red to the fleshes of white

                                      We’re outcaste

                               With the recipes of mammy

                              now  in the hands of sanders

                  along with the molasses of jemima

                                  We are bamboozled

                       When the attraction of our livelihood

                           Became wearable,That is when

                                   We were mimicked   

  But still we rise...We rise into cabins of despair

               And  to  the gospels of stockholm

              How ironic, that we ONCE were

 

Stocks,bonded and sold into wallstreet were our foot stones still lie to this day

Left with no compensation.

 

                                                                                 

“The american red stripes of blood,along with the fleshes of white are embedded in me”