our skin, our sexuality and identity,
yet your intolerant-self scream taboo
and have handed many over to be slaughtered--
not even their carefully tailored lives could alter
this lunacy -
How dare them look like or want their own kind, you
ask -
you scream abomination -
and as part of your so-called daily godly task -
you call for complete annihilation -
while your 'equally' rotten deeds remain in mask
O save the witch and burn them at the stake because
you look or sin different--
you who appears to have a warrant
from your illusionary god to carry out
what leaves many feeling haunted --
causing them to live their lives in an everyday plea
-
also forced to ask everyone to let them be.
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| Kwame Nkrumah and Martin Luther King |
You are no different from the oppressors of Kwame
Nkrumah and Mandela -
those vile men with an illusion of supremacy and
moral authority --
who likewise caused the match to Selma led by Martin
Luther --
to purchase freedom
and establish their identity.
Unchain their freedom:
how much would it cost?
They are more than willing to buy some love and
acceptance if that is all it will cost--
I am sure it is the least atonement for being
different.
Unchain their freedom:
let us not make vain
the toils of our forebears whose blood and pain -
long purchased our freedom --
and while we are at it let us forget not
that we all have fallen short
of the very standards we stationed -
perhaps 'equally' deserving to be stoned.
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| Ghana's Dr. Kwame Nkrumah |
