AFRICA  AND AFRICAN ROOTS




THE SLAVE MERCHANTS


(Watching Sudan and other African crisis on TV)

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Behold the sorry sight of children

Of dark circles beneath a child eye

Illuminated the secrets buried deep

The curses that hunts the African plains

A photograph revered and admired

That told the reviewers the sources of pain

A black mother embracing herself

Stare hopelessly at her dead son in a feast of flies

The tragedy the shame and the pain and abuse

Reviewed as scenes in pictured form of arts

Watching the world comments on CNN

The deaf poet never had time to sleep

It still needed to be made simpler

And am telling about the doom again

Re composing the decorative media schemes

Of a shamefaced heritage in artistic abandon

The depressing posture of staged scenes

Is truly what the Bible says life is all about?

But putting them so movie like on stages

Such pitiful imaginary killing inch by inch

Funny to think I was the freedman crying for freedom

While the brotherhood shows what a shame we dreamed

The echoing reality sinking lowly with a continent

Veiled the cries of dissidence against my doubt in review

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From time to time I watch things my fathers could have watched

The hardship and abuse and shame

The endless plagues of ethics strife

Handed down from generation to generation



Here accepting a mothers breast

A child tried to squeeze an ounce of milk

A taste of my own tear falling on my lip

With the scenes of every kind



Shaping images the media stole my heart

Pictures capturing things I cannot deny

The black man's shame in each secret place

Stinks worse than Noah's ark



The scenes of shames I refuse to see

Accusing me of deceit against the media

The anguished act of torment swelled up tears

Calling me a racist against the foreign press



Well to be honest I am, in all moment beheld

Hoping to capture in my poetry a merciless licking

The sound of a house nigger in captured days

Unlike me I never fail to do my chores



Was it my uselessness that provided legal justification?

Or was it the shame that attracted the press

Like the hordes of flies in a feast of lust

On us the focus of a staged representing

I laugh to think of it, I laugh to think of them

To think of what the brotherhood in America could think

Huddled in typical nigger fashion the past to deride

They could jump ten feet in the air and thank God for the slave
merchant

CONCLUDING SCENES

THE STORY WITHIN

There was a little black girl

Who never asked to ever been born

But as fate could have it

She was born the perfect masterpiece



Put her there in the delicate chair

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This is genocide said an attaché

Don't wipe it don't weep it

Leave the puss clinging to that eye

Yes we need to capture it

We need the first prize for BBC CNN and CO

Photo competitions and captioned news

Uh! Oh! Wait a while

Put her among the dead niggers

And make her look the child who never wished to be born

Is her painful countenance visibly evident?

Can you see it as you watch her on television?

Oh! Uh! Such pitiful beauty found only in dreams

Can you, can you?

A tear that cling to the child lid

Seems to try to write

The story of that I am trying to stop

Things I knew from a black-poet-induced visions

Killing me softly in line with my thoughts

Yet I am nothing but a pen and ink and an empty mind

A voice from a Nigerian village tribe



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