unity
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In unity we find our strength,
Together we can go to great length,
Bound by a common goal,
We can overcome any toll.
For when we stand together,
We are stronger than ever,
Unity, the bond that binds us all,
Together we stand, never to fall.
In times of joy, in times of strife,
Our unity keeps us going in life.
From different lands and cultures we hail,
I have never seen an ugly flowerFlowers are always full of grandeurFlowers are known to be beautifulAll the time, that's stupendously wonderfulAll flowers speak a beautiful language
Betrayed and backstabbed
By our African brothers.
Insulted, humiliated and robbed
You are nobody
As I am nobody
You are somebody
As I am somebody
There’s one humanity
Let’s thank God and Jesse
we are one
we are some
we are cool
away from fools
through the year
we turn on our gear
show our power
on the tower
we are not weak
even in a week
twice a day
We do not want only a piece
We aspire and want Peace
A mammoth piece of Freedom
For the north, south, west and east
It is Thanksgiving afternoon
Different is the celebration
We must now wear a mask
In order to safely see Christmas
Why limit oneself to a single colorWhen one can enjoy all the colors of the rainbow?Look up and gaze at the stars. The clouds are lowBut only two colors are breaking the door.
order in the court!
the judge yelled out loud
as a loud uproar came from the crowd
the judge asked if peace could take the stand
the crowd proceeded with the questions
how do you think you could help?
AFRICA
I Pondered
What's African
Time.⌚
I came to
realization,
why Africa
is yet
lacking
behind.
We are the generation
In which the world has
Placed its trust onto.
We are the future.
They've been saying this
Since we were only children.
It's all up to us.
Yup... I'm THAT GUY Who Uses Rhymes ...
And Words To UNITE Like Day Does Night... !!!
Cos I'm The LYRICAL KING To Diana's PRINCE... !!!
Yes A WONDER MAN Whose Pen COMMANDS...
Respect That's........ GRAND ....... !!!
You don’t see color?
Then you must have a real hard time with traffic lights.
But no, what you really mean is
You choose
Not
In times like this, it is easy to feel scared and alone,
When you have no idea what's going on in the outside world because you are stuck at home.
With your loved ones so far away,
ONCE THERE WAS A CLASH BETWEEN THE FIVE
THE THUMB FINGER SAID"I AM UNIQUE,I AM THE KING"
THE INDEX FINGER SAID" I POINT OUT OTHER'S MISTAKE,I CAN BE THE KING"
The Media is headlining COVID-19 to strike fear
I'm here to headline COVID-19 to strike Faith
with a different acronym
Christ Over Virus and Infectious Disease
the number 19 will be change to 66
We all have our emotions,
our lighter and darker sides.
There is good and there is evil
which within us all abides.
Mankind is evolving,
a necessity to survive,
towards new heights of tolerance,
if you can't believe in yourself,
you can leave the task to me
when you're feeling worthless
know that you matter to me
because when i look at the world,
So What Does LOVE REALLY Mean To You .... ???
Your Lovers' Touch Or The Things They DO .... ???
That Make You FEEL Your Love Is REAL ... ?!?
Americans We
We were the arnsenal of democracy,
There, fighting on the beaches of Normandy.
We felt victory at last and our enemies none,
By standing together, Americans as one.
Rise UP
Rise up I say, why you gotcha ya head bowed
This ain’t what our ancestor had in mind when they feet hit the ground
Running as fast as they could, never looking back at the enemy
The sky was shining blue above,
all the people one in love,
it was almost as if they never heard of
SELF
It’s an
Anxiety
That doesn’t
Need to be diagnosed
But it’s felt
And it’s known
Like
Brown
Smile for me
As I smile for you
Listen to the music
We'll be making some real soon
Moonlight and stars
Decorate your eyes
I'll remember this night for the rest of my life
May my compassion for each and every being I meet be limitless and sincere
May my wisdom transcend all defilements and confusion
Buddha is my true nature, may I always be mindful of this
This is a recorded performance at the Bite of Seattle 2017.
I will type up the lyrics later.
I fear to see the mother land
cry blood on tectonic plates,
Shift to separate lands of
human evolution tentatively
In war formed by our own, one
say to unite the black with wight
protected by blood.
The hate you give may be
The hate you'll receive
You give what you get,
You get what you give.
So often, this philosophy.
-
And so, molded by hate,
I become what I hate.
Why does this happen?
the world seems to be insane
illness and pain
struggle and vain
what happened to the love?
why cant we seem to rise above?
loving and uniting
a stop to all the fighting
the shade of our skin,
the color of our eyes,
the shape of our noses,
the way our hair falls,
things we don’t decide
yet they seem to be
deciding factors in how we see eachother,
Pray for the One
Good deeds are acts of prayer
To the light, our vanguard.
This is the time when
Acts of love are needed
To fortify the One of which
We all are,
Dear Heavenly Father,
As humble as I know how, I come to you with a heavy heart, mind, body and soul.
I come from a place of heart break, heartache, and pain.
I come in a cloud of confusion asking for clearity and sanity.
Poetry teaches unteachable lessons
Things you can’t find in a textbook or lecture
The beauty of words, A universal language
Poetry— friendship, a means of connection
When tough times
Do arise
When the world is falling
And the voices are calling
We take a stand
Hand in hand
We come together
Every day
there’s a new tragedy
plaguing the headlines of newspapers and magazines
When did we forget how to love?
instead learn how to hate
A love so dear,That is hard to disappear,Purity in the heart makes it dear. He may be gone currently,But not permanently,For bond is rare,Almost too strong to bare. So no worries,He'll return merely.Patients is key,For God' timing is sweet as te
We live in a world where hate is still here
We live in a world where you can be an unarmed black man but still get the nine bullets to your back
Speaking up equals speaking back
Dear Numbers,
You represent that which words can easily explain.
You represent something lonely and lost.
You are solitary objects that only result in a continual pattern
of more numbers to be defined.
We got the fire
From dusk till dawn
Ours is such that
Can change the world
We have the fire
And we burn forever
As long as we are together
Dilemmas are a thing of the past.
It was sad but beautiful,
the ways she learned to cry.
How she learned not to use tears
to express how she truly felt.
How she picked up a pen
and rewrote her prayers and
redrew her dreams.
We are not less than
We are your equals
We are not your captives
We are not your vassals
Much is wrong with our society,
Treating people like scum,
This causes some to turn to anarchy,
But choas without purpose is dumb.
We all have a lesson to learn,
Unity is the way to peace,
Music tells a story
Just because you stop listening
doesn’t mean it ends
Others hear the words
the ones you deny
Though to you it may only be noise
SOME SAY THAT WE ARE UNWILLING TO
UNITE...
THAT WE AREN'T STRONG ENOUGH TO WIN THE FIGHT...
WELL I BELIEVE IF WE STAND AS ONE WE WILL BECOME ONE NATION...
I PRAY THAT WE CAN BE PROUD OF WHAT ARE KIDS WILL BECOME..
Do you know how it feels to feel alone?
I mean, really feel alone, not just to call someone and they won't pick up the phone.
Not just to be at home and hear a pin drop.
Because I love you
I see you for who you are
I am not only an admirer, but I see you as a star.
A divine reflection
Not my missing piece
Because when I found you, we both had worked to feel complete
Because I love you
I see you for who you are
I am not only an admirer, but I see you as a star.
A divine reflection
Not my missing piece
Because when I found you, we both had worked to feel complete
Because I love you
I see you for who you are
I am not only an admirer, but I see you as a star.
A divine reflection
Not my missing piece
Because when I found you, we both had worked to feel complete
I’m the rap Avatar and bringing peace is my missionI’m unlocking people’s greatness and not asking for permissionEveryone has a gift all they need is one decisionTo give there idea some vision to outside its mental prison
Unity is the message that I really want to spreadDon’t care what building your in or if your Whig or if your fedAs we all strive for the same things food friends and hitting the bed
I want to create an alpha park
Where light is brought to the dark
A park where i’m an Alpha
A park consisting of alphas.
Getting strong by numbers and days
A humble woe am I
With many compassions
But no motion for emotion
For there is no commotion
In this non-amorous notion
A lad,
Seeking nothing but the joyfulness
In everyday animation.
People say whatever they want without knowledge
“1st amendment,” they say.
We are different in every way, and that’s what’s beautiful.
We close our eyes to the unjust visions
We close our ears to the cries for help
the cries of pain
We shut our doors to our brothers and sisters
We shut out the rest of the world
Through the Soil
A Tree grows
Through the Land
A River grows
Through the Wind
An Eagle grows
Through the People
A Nation grows
A Nation
Want to know America?
Stand on Lady Liberty.
Get a glimpse of what it means;
Look out as far as you can see.
Once upon a time,
As I’m walking out, I see a different world.I stay looking at the news, telling myself this isn’t real.I feel like I’m always gonna be asking myself why. Why does the world have to be so racist.Why does the world have to have so much hatred. Why d
'Merica
Is the old man who stopped and turned
To snarl at my mothers beige skin
In the dairy aisle without shame
It is the voice in my head saying
I'll never be able to hold my girlfriends hand
I learned the word animosity in 2016
Because the word is thrown around carelessly
Whether it be in the news or in discussion
This word is used to describe the world currently
This word is new to me
A country of refuge
People will flee
Politicians will rave
We are,
Land of the free
Home of the brave
Independence we gained
Yet it’s unity we crave
Our politicians still rave
In these Disunited States
We're always concerned with such petty things as
Left or right
Black or white
This or that
In a world where nothing stays the same
Either for better or worse
America could either lead to fame
Or it can lead you to a hurse
Aren't they both the same?
They seem to be a curse
Know Yourself.
This life is not so easy, give time a tog to settle down for a reason.
Realize it is inevitable to swerve out of place, like your first steps made, hardly to keep in pace.
My skin. Look at my skin. What am I? I am a mixed girl in a obscure world. When I would play on the playground. Small, this high, my wide eyes didn’t yet recognize the lies.
Unity is strength
Unity brings power
Standing together as one shows us we are strong and tall like a tower
Ripples of a Third World Heartbreak
My eyes will open
And I will see the vibrant yellow paint that has coated the walls of my room
Feminism
the movement aimed at equal rights for women
women meaning plural
meaning all women
not just caucasian women
not just women of color
Pure dark cocoa, milk chocolate, toasted caramel, almond joy; & eveything in between.
Love your colored Kings & Queens.
Gentrification gettin’ into this nation;Historically segregation, Killin’ kids, lit in flames and;Rioting makes it hasten, and racists make the hatred;It’s wicked and dangerous, we livin’ in hades;
Where there is peace
there is inspiration
stillness
imagination
Where there is peace
there is love
like in a mother's womb
a natural state
quiet
warmth
I go in search
of the magicians
the ones that still chant
abracadabra three times
an ancient trilogy revived
I go in search of hope for tomorrow;
where wild tiger lilies grow tall,
GOLDEN OpportUNITY
KEY TO CommUNITY
Unlocks hearts and minds
To the beauty of UNITY
Where hate is dead
Love lives for eternity
And the cloud's silver lining
Beholds a GOLDEN OpportUNITY...
Almighty! Almighty!
Grant us each others love
Grant us Unity
Almighty! Almighty!
We are you, you are we
One commUNITY
Almighty!
Make me an instrument
Of your will
Her and him
Him and her
From different worlds but still collide
A bond that overpowers all like yin and yang
And I am tired, and I am alone.
Shout it from the rooftops,
It should be known.
As a whole we "somehow grown."
But how am I still tired, and how am I still alone
We are shot when we are compliant
We are shot when we are defiant
There are mothers crying
There are children dying
They want to keep us institutionalized
I know what the Germans done
The human eyes allow us to see
and the spiritual one allows us to perceive.
As a result, I wake up with desire to grow up to be,
is the greatest instiller in all of history.
Musical minds
Border a fine line between delinquent and divine.
Find the time
To flow with the despised,
Realized,
Undefined,
Nature of a different kind.
Connect with the disconnected.
I think of how the universe is made of theories— assumptions and mathematical calculations attempting to shut down the human paradox and close Pandora’s Box,
Forlonness and dejection tear at my heart
Serrated claws ripping flesh apart
Searing pain pulsates through a body so maimed
Burning gaze from icy daggers aimed at my shame
Are we not the same?
I remeber the rush.
The moment pen touches paper.
The smooth glide on blank slate.
Infinite array of options,
Potential, that I never had.
The feel wasn't all however,
September twenty second, the day this nation gave freedom to her black folk
the day, every black man became free, but free..from what?
I'm tiered of waking up to see the news.
How many died?
Who bombed who?
When I see the headlines I sigh,
They outnumber those that show any hope,
Faith in humanity so hard to restore.
I write to explain my feelings because speaking is uncomfortable,
I write so people know that they are not alone,
I write to explain how beautiful the world is even with its humanistic flaws,
I write,
What does Poetry mean to me?
The words in my head that I can't get out.
That's Poetry.
My fingers flwing over keys as my head clicks along.
That's Poetry.
Poetry is me. With a computer. And my brain.
This is a poem for my brothers and my sisters
Yes the brothers and sisters of my blood
and
Yes the brothers and sisters of my hood
and
Look around
Left
Right
What happened to my sunlight?
The rays of growth
I feel alone
Cuz in this world people don't exist, right?
I loved the way my lover touched me
As the days goes
My mind grows
Sharper than knives
Sweeter than the honey hives
My character shows
And the wise knows
Beautiful be my people
Yeah you know the ones with the wide nose
I raise my fist to where God sits on highwishing he would step down lowlower then your shallow thoughts of what beauty should bewith a smile as luminous as Mr.
We need to find a leader,
But that’s not me.
We need someone who can reign us in.
But I don’t know who’ll that be.
I don’t want to take over it all,
But I don’t know what else to do.
I love nice things, but that doesn't mean I steal.
I dislike some people, but it doesn't mean I kill.
I live at home, but that doesn't mean I don't pay a bill.
I like to relax, but it doesn't mean all I do is chill.
No white or black
Just a well laid track
And often a concerning lack
Of humanity is seen
Forgetting the in between
Just fallowing a track
To human demise
A world were one another
In China, hospitals skip the fourth
and the fourteenth floor
because four in Mandarin Chinese
iss hi,
the same pronunciation
as the word for death.
Another story on the news just broke
A father just died from being choked
Just like an innocent boy with a toy got killed
And a teen with his hands up was shot against his will
I Am Hip-Hop
We Are the music that beats in our chest
I Am Water
We are more than 60% of water
I Am Earth
We are traveling on this planet known as Earth, Terra, Gaia
I dream of something that should already be done.
I dream of bonds like the red tent.
Solidarity between womyn.
Because when we were property that our fathers could sell,
And our blood was dirty,
The world consists of
Single blocks.
And we were towers of LEGO.
Stacked up, man on man
Corruption uses those faces
Beautiful faces
Have control in reality and illusion
Spawning death everywhere
We need those pretty faces
That inspire and hypnotize
Black people, like paint swatches, come in an array of shades. We can be a deep, rich mahogany, a creamy, smooth caramel, a bold, mysterious ebony, or even a blend of the three.
In the darkness you can see not a soul
see not a soul but your own
so there you are alone with familiar stranger
feeling like you're in danger
surrounded by who knows what
the mystery weighs way too much
Two cultures can get me twisted,
The white community is always listed,
When filling out my race,
Is it possible to be, simply, black and white in this kaleidoscope world of colors?
Is it possible to be, simply, one low note while others are scales, trills, and melodies?
I’m not a poet I’m a penny flying through the air after you throw it
Off the top of a building or Into the wishing well
I’m wishing well for all my brothers and sisters across the globe
Bombs everywhere, missiles left and right, clenching my gun in my hand so tight. Side versus side, so scared but I will never show it, America the Brave, proud and heroic.
Can I Get A Story
I am Black and American
Yet I am labeled as white
And not because I bite
I see you,
Standing by my side.
Waiting to catch me when I fall.
Ready to help me out.
We all act as if we united
We are one
We are powered
But how united are we?
If the worls is a stage,
And we ar the plaers,
Then we hide ourselves,
Costumed with our parts.
To the world, our viewers,
We are characters,
Destned to play our parts.
Behind stage, we live,
If you’ve ever loved a boy who is both out of your league and culture
Whatever he meant by that
You would know what it’s like to sit at a dining table in a home
Let me hold you.
Let me hold you, expressed the flowing river.
Let me lead you around the twists and bends.
Let me expose you to the eb and flow of my waters path.
Our fear has made some of us uncommitted as a portion of society.
Our conditions have caused us to alter our mindset to materials that essentially have no true value.
Let's set it all clear,
You are the part of me that
was always there
but couldn't wake up until
your gentle spirit
rustled me awake.
Suddenly,
but smoothly,
We dem boys
Them boys that do great things
Them boys that after we do it you want to do it too
No need for twitter to tell me I’m trending
I’m black,
I’m trending everyday
The flow of the human race is nothing more than a flow
We seem more and more content in our ways we forget to grow
The Individualistic idea has inspired oneself to lead a life of independence
I beieve in the strength of mankind
the unity we create
the power only one person can have
If I don't hold you down who will
What if I don't hold your hand when you're ready to quit
We still feel the sun’s burn after a long day.
We still smile when we see the rains come our way.
We still have the haunted eyes at the fire side.
The only one left, a rarity indeed.I remember the day they chose me back in 1983.I still keep the tag on to remember how much it cost to get them.Stitched to perfection, fitted with a sensual emblem.
Sparks ignite
The arid fields
And childhood memories
A glow
Hangs like hell above
Bathed in warm light
Flames climb
The walls of the house
In which we once slept
Hopes
Majesty
The only word to describe
Tranquility
The water ripples slowly under the sun
The slow breathing still rock
Protects the trinkling waterfall
As its own
Because they are one.
The things that I'd change would be minds and heartsWhen the clock strikes the miracle hourThe peace that's been lostAt innumerable costsWould return with unity once ours
He waits by the streaming Falls.
A healthy mind is stalled by a growing void.
It spills deeper into a pipework of drains,
Guatemala,
Trying to leave the 3rd World.
That's why we need UNITY!
Israel,
So much sorrow and pain beneath those shawls.
When I was younger, I never cared about what other people looked like,
About the color of their skin.
None of that ever mattered to me.
My parents taught me to look deep down inside of a person;
I sit at home, reading about the calamities of the world
And think to myself, "Couldn't these be handled better?"
More often than not, the powers that be twist their authority
At the sound of an alarm,
We wake!
At the smell of a brew,
We wake!
At the turn of a key
We move!
On our path to fortune,
We dream,
Yet, at the sight of the homeless child,
This is their place,
the place they freely roam;
This is their place,
the place they call, “Home”.
Sometimes I look in the mirror
and see myself in fear.
What I see is a mess
and I think of a makeover and nothing less.
Our government, while always great
seems to need the same help as of late.
Th light of day gives to dark of night,
How can one overlook this tribune?
For even apathy has insight,
Unique, originality, different
Our people bound to these words like religion.
One by one these words part us like the sea.
Drowning us in our own individuality.
It’s when autumn
in its final throes
surrenders
and one morning
you draw in
a peculiar breath
thick with frigid air
that you realize
the winter’s made
its presence.
Money vs Survival
Another worry versus another worry
Seeking money to survive veruses just survivng
Slaving away versus Living away
Tears of hardship versus Tears of real life.
“Can I have that to go?
But why do I ask?
Time doesn’t go slow,
And I have no better task.
But we are always running,
Away to better things.
Our aversion is stunning,
For we are in here in peace
Hair and grease
For we hold up our fist
Pass the fish and grits
For we stand for justice
Even when it's just us
For we love without color
Spreadin' butter
In the world you live,
there are villains,
There are villains who call themselves heroes,
they're given your rejection,
attempting to eclipse the shining truth with deception,
Sad, lonley children
lost in their everlasting battle
bewildered by the odd things
shunned my the 'normal' ones.
Names and labels,
scorching lives shooting down brilliant minds
Well, you see Sir,
Time has come Teacher
you desire a review
of everything you say and do
and Dear Instructor, I have a few things to say to you.
Condemn your wisdom and knowledge base we do not.
Take the time to listen,
Take the time to know,
Take the time to hold on,
To that which is truly good.
This is a money hungry nation and without it you can't succeed,
People havin to suffer for things they need,
Yet the priveleged prosper from their greed,
I'm stuck in quicksand while the rich go full speed,
Late lonely nights I wander aimlessly in the thick, suffocating darkness that dances in envy around the glistening liquid moonlight
To which are you referring
The lines that you are blurring
The hands unheld and the tears untouched
Hungry, hurting, hopeless
-> I first crafted this verse at a deeply reflective point in my life. My thoughts were on the past actions of myself and those close to me, and I began pondering the driving force for those actions.
I consider myself to be a little strange
With thoughts always racing through my head
I consider myself a dork because of my passions
Things I love inspire me to write down what I once said
We all witnessed the sweat rolliing down Miss Liberty's head/ when she found out the sleeping giant is no longer sleeping dead/ The Giant/slept with nightmares for over 200 years/ but the giant cannot be awaken by only one peer/ when we marched a
Organ of immense size,
enterance and barrier,
we are a people
obessesed.
Color, clarity, cut,
that's all we see.
Peel it back,
throw it away.
Our hearts all beat,
We are women,
Whether complicated or submissive we take things to a whole other level
We are women
Three out of four was the turn out.
Growing up in a single parent household,
College Park, Ga 30349 was my hood until my mother found a way out.
Moved us quite a few times, then we hit Henry County.
And after the storm
We will rest in long moments suspended.
We will walk with grounded steps
On familiar land,
And trust our feet to lead us home.
We will dress ourselves
We live in a world where there’s so much hardship, pain, and suffering
We live in a world where there’s you and me but there’s hardly ever we
And when there is it’s because we’re fighting against an enemy
In the eyes of God we are all the same. Human. One life. One name.
So why cant people realize that we are all the same?
I dont care what color your skin shines and soaks in.
I dont care if your gay, straight or lesbian.
A ticket and a dream was all that she could see,
An orphan, and hope for all that could be.
Not even a hop, skip, and a jump away.
To arrive on a plan was more than they could ask for,
Don't judge me if you don't me:
They judge my skin
They don't care what is within
They judge me because i do things differtly
I want to speak in unity
I'm trying to speak freely
Skin. The reason we're all here. The thing that keeps us together. Please come off. I do not wish to be here much longer. I wish to hover above all of the other hopeless people. Wanting to hear their thoughts.
As we complain about things being unfair,
there are families in the US without health care.
You may not have gotten what you wanted for your birthday,
there are people in Haiti trying to survive after an earthquake.
I heard on the news the other morning that another child had been killed. And as I sat there listening to the emotionless reporter talk about his death I felt the tears roll down my cheek.
I step out of the plane
Baggage on my right hand
A bag of toys on the other.
One foot touches the concrete.
The hard surface onto the soft soles of my feet.
If today were the last day to live,
would you call your enemies and forgive?
or would you go to the shelter to give?
something simple can express so much
our hands together is a simple touch
Abnormal, poor, weird words I hear daily
Growing up poor wasn’t a choice; wishing it was a choice
Each day I struggle looking over my should, hearing them laugh,
Avoiding the landlord, rents overdue.
Do not tell me to love the skin I’m in,
When everyone around me does not.
It would be bullshit to say they don’t matter.
Because I’ve heard it my entire life.
The student body
gathered outside
that winter night
on one of the
windiest days of
the year
and we held
candles in
paper cups
between the
spaces in our
cotton gloves
these hands, subjacent to my heart,
brush tears from eyes,
push water through space,
teach children to swim,
feed hungry lost souls, faith,
make art, heal wounds,
and open doors... for you.
Life is like dominoes,
each one has an effect,
wherever the first one falls
has an influence on the next.
The bass controls my pulse
The whole room shaking from the sound
Bodies slamming, sweat swapped
All walks of life become one
The whole place is in unison
Punk rock connects all
Singers bouncing off kids
If the heroes of old learned how we kept this place
They would rise from the grave and they would spit in our faces
The land and the sea is soaked with blood and their tears
Maintaining our freedom for hundreds of years
Who the hell made you queen?
You have a comment on everything
Never a smile, only a frown
All you do is tear us down
You only scream and yell
Making a cheerleader's life a living hell
(poems go here) As I sit back, reminisce,
and wonder why,
why I am who I am,
and my eyes become watery and I start to cry.
Looking through a black girls eye
What do you see?
Ignorance is not uncommon
It’s everything it can be
Looking through a black girls eyes
I see pain
Pain that cannot be changed overnight
We live in the Middle East,
on a wealthy estate,
born of the opposite
color.
We see an enemy,
a complete stranger,
a brother
in a war overseas.
Society is blinded
This world lost its vision
People saying God
Forgot his own religion
Hand over your heart
To a flag that needs revision
It just doesn’t add up
We’re all products of division
Some people say love doesnt exist
Others say it is only found between a man and woman
if thats true then whats this im feeling
for a woman
Butterflies in result to that sweet sound
i call ur voice
Though we are different and unique
Two separate cultures and worlds apart,
I fear society’s standards will force you to depart
Sometimes the future with you looks bleak.
You are from the Arabic world and nation
Skin is nothing more than a covering for our bodies
Complete with different shades and degrees
Absolute black and white doesn't exist here
Alone. Fragmented. Privately owned. The
attempt to unite is futile. A man --
or woman, or some other thing whose hands
act life chain-link dividing the land -- He --
or she or it -- acts anonymously,
Clouds of ghost nothings
evaporating across the dark
Sun:
stubborn.
Stars,
free, warm, dancing.
Crying.
Skirts. Women
This is a world where we are free
In a world of confusion
We live under the weight of the sky
Above the weight of the sea
We roam this world in hope for truth
But we find terror, dread, and sorrow
Do you hear that
shh, listen closely
Do you hear that
shhh, listen closely
Do you hear that sound
the sound of a homeless man begging for beer,
of children crying because mommy and daddy don't wanna hear
Your skin ugh. So black so filthy, murky.
But did I ask you your opinion?
Your assurance that my skin is any less than what I'm assured it is?
Oh No!
Just the powerof one
Just the power of many
United by all we’ve become
I seize the day
Just what we’ve always wanted
Just what can never be reached
The colors of life seem brighter
There is little that makes sense in this world,
But justice is something I understand.
The equality of all men,
And the celebration of each other.
George Wallace and Rosa Parks,
Light is light, and dark is dark.
Each coexisted in the creation day,
But, oh, how far we seem to stray;
Why must the differences now be so stark?
We were once a people.
We taught together.
We fought together,
For freedom.
Our people won.
Black teachers, doctors, politicians.
The sky was the limit.
We were family.
Daddy was always there.
I look at my arm and see glowing amber skin
Bright green eyes, curvy figure, long hair and thin lips
Anyone can see that I am mixed within
You have no say
Yes I do
For I shall have the right to speak
Isn’t it Freedom of Speech?
No man shall be prohibited to speak their mind
You have no say
Yes I do
For I shall have the right to speak
Isn’t it Freedom of Speech?
No man shall be prohibited to speak their mind
People Red
Meet People Blue,
Forming a Purple hue,
They see, they know, Unity’s role.
Where Red and Blue meet
Purple edges are burned,
No one must see, know,
The beauty of inbetween.
I am a product of the Earth, much like you.
My people blossom in the motherland, soaking in the bright sun.
Our vines weave around the rough terrain, entangling in each other
We grow in these dense fields.
Bleed, pour, sacrifice
Your body and your soul
Fight back, or give in
But you will never be whole.
