Elemental rebellion

One of our only protectors The sun burns their skins With the reminder of their sins The sun kisses our skin Gifting it with affection The wind echoes with our ancestors stories A silent act of justice A way to honour black history To haunt the guilty The wind lifts our heads up To remind us That they can't break us And that it will always avenge us The fire ignites us To empower us To speak up It gives us our voice to show them we won't shut up They can't stop us Our fire burns through their hatred of blackness But for us It gives us our confidence The ocean our biggest protectors Freed us From a lifetime of punishment It saved us And buried us Then made sure our pain wasn't forgotten It gave us our salvation A different form of justice The soil has tasted our blood Carried our burdens And held our broken bodies It has drowned in our tears And cried to our prayers