Please Stop and Frisk me AMERICA

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 20:12 -- Anomoly

Please stop and frisk me

Cuz crime is a race

Please stop and frisk me cuz I've got crime written all over my face.

 

From my Brown eyes that

Did not cry

As I watched my fellow brown skin sway in trees LIFELESS

From side to side

 

To my lips

sown  shut

As the hate spewed by Mr crow

Cut into my heart like daggers

Puttin on a GOOD SHOW

 

But please stop and frisk me  

frisk me

With the same ferocity

in the  flames

that burned our Baptist crosses

Monsters aren't under they said

True

They were under the white sheets  

Counting OUR losses

 

So please

frisk me

Because I aggrivate your trigger finger

I'm just some other n...

Who needs to be stopped before I attack

Attack like the dogs sicked upon us

Attack like the hydrants that drenched us

Attack like the batons you KILLED  us with

 

Or is my truth just to blunt

My apologies

I forget acceptable racism is done subliminally

 

Stop

me

America

please

 

So you can sleep tonight with ease

It doesn't matter that my free spirit no longer sings

I'll give you the scissors to clip my wings

 

frisk me

Leaving

.NO

stone left unturned

Cuz' my spirit still BURNS with the flame you can't seem to out

my Malcolm X marks the spot

 of the revolution spewing outta my mouth

 

Cuz' I refuse to stand by

And watch

As our Trayvon Martins

Freddie Grays

and Emmett Tills

still

Get popped

Well i wanna hear the bullets stop

 

So frisk me

I DARE YOU

The revolution is live

No longer televised

The day

Is

New  


 

 

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Me
My community
My country
Our world
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