I Am Legend
“In a revolution, the first people to go are the poets”
I clashed with Titans
Moved mountains without any physical force, but the power of these words made me God-like
I am a Poet
Documenting history inside notebooks like hieroglyphics on pyramids
Storytelling the pain life brings
I am a Messenger
Reciting within these lines tales we are too blind to see or understand
What would you do when life “hits the fan”? Trying to stay on the positive
Walking the straight and narrow but always seeming to be an obstacle in your way
When the devil picks up your call each time you pray and you ask God, ask Allah, Christ, Yahweh, Selassie
“Jah, why you stay so distant from me?”
I am a Witness
I’ve seen the most beautiful things in this life you can imagine
Babies being born; tenderly placed inside the hands of mothers
Unaware the struggles they will have to face in the later years
But at this moment, these children nurse
Ironically, the moment infants breathe into the world, its death sentence begins
We all know how life starts never knowing how it ends,
Paris Talley I’m sorry your mother buried you in your Sunday’s best in a microwave casket watching your skin cooking, peeling off, blood boiling exploding out of your heart
Kristine Floy your Tear drops have always been the inspiration inside my heart…
Telling your story in Lashanda’s body reflecting your body inside a hospital room dying from the Cervical Cancer that almost attached to your soul
Marcelle Dawes you taught me that 13 year olds are not gods but more mortal than a lighter fluid induced flames
Street light shrines to your lifeless graduation pictures from Ditmas, tears of your mother,
My knees buckling from Willie Lynch’s whip because your demise was part of the system I wanted no part of
I am an Activist
Rewriting the “Birth of a Nation”
I lead Rioting Revolutions that strikes fear in every Klu Klux Klan member and White Supremacist
But this is not Black Supremacy
I’m painting the picture a King once envisioned
I am a Revolutionist
With Spoken Word I will lead this Revolution into a new era
It takes a death to make people conscious to what is going on around them
People create legacies from cemeteries
But while I have my life force, I will force knowledge into nations and make you listen
I am far from inadequate
I am not a quitter
And even if my works doesn’t reach the masses I would rather die failing than to give up
As a poet, I will spit the truth create my own legacy
Monument myself for millenniums to come starting from this century and despite the adversity
I won’t let the ignorant remarks from people who fail to understand my words, despise my voice, and hate the way my cadence breaks down the syllables of my pen’s pain hinder me
This is who I am
I am a Poet, a Messenger, a Witness, an Activist, a Revolutionist
I am Legend
And you will remember me