Black
At the beginning, in the cradle,
all were black and comely.
Great civilization evolved to flourish
and build magnificent monuments
to humanity.
The world of black faces
left traces around the globe
of their art and government.
Over millennia an invasion
of fair-skinned parasites
systematically rewrote history
to exclude these ancestors.
Pushed from the Nile to ever-shrinking
lands unable to sustain the Ancients,
their sons and daughters now starve.
Packages thrown from planes
like bones to dogs
contain nutritionless gruel
or plastic containers of water
that leech chemicals.
Gaunt faces appear in
channel-changed t.v. ads
as the genocide goes on.
Herein these lines lies impotent rage,
a caricature of humanity,
an aching soul who can only write
and write and write words
which make no difference
to a child's belly tonight.
~~~~~~~~~~~~ for the Sami Al-Khalili contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTE: "The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of Race
from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D" written by Chancellor Williams
is truly an eye-opening read !!
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