Millard Lowe Poet Free verse

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OF WE AND THEY/EVEN US AND THEM!    *

 

In the beginning

We were the architects

Of God’s designed world;

Then came them—

The devastating forces

Of its Garden Of Eden 

Decline:- 

 

We were the flowers

And fruits of the Garden;

Then they became

The slithering and coiling

Slime of disobedience

And disrespect:-

 

We were chosen 

To teach cross bearing

With the Bearer thereof;

Then they—save Mark—

Tried to leave out 

Our Simon Of Cyrene hue:-

 

As you read, my children,

Listen to these 83+ years

Old screaming words:

We must know that ourstory here,

Did not begin with their slavery!

They’re just lyingly implicated this,

In their fecal canvassing 

Of their diuretic history:-

 

While we remain

The crucified oppressed,

And they, the crucifiers,

Realize our Ancestors

Ensured that we would be

Today’s resurrected ones;

Overcoming and ascending,

 Memorial total liberation:-

 

Thus, it be between them 

And us, in waning oppression

And waxing liberation; 

We ascending the mountaintop,

Not as children of Sisyphus,

But, the ebony-hued of the Liberator:-

 

OF WE AND THEY: EVEN OF US AND THEM

OF WE AND THEY/EVEN US AND THEM!    *

In the beginning
We were the architects
Of God’s designed world;
Then came them—
The devastating forces
Of its Garden Of Eden 
Decline:- 

We were the flowers
And fruits of the Garden;
Then they became
The slithering and coiling
Slime of disobedience
And disrespect:-

We were chosen 
To teach cross bearing
With the Bearer thereof;
Then they—save Mark—
Tried to leave out 
Our Simon Of Cyrene hue:-

As you read, my children,
Listen to these 83+ years
Old screaming words:
We must know that ourstory here,
Did not begin with their slavery!
They’re just lyingly implicated this,
In their fecal canvassing 
Of their diuretic history:-

While we remain
The crucified oppressed,
And they, the crucifiers,
Realize our Ancestors
Ensured that we would be
Today’s resurrected ones;
Overcoming and ascending,
Memorial total liberation:-

Thus, it be between them 
And us, in waning oppression
And waxing liberation; 
We ascending the mountaintop,
Not as children of Sisyphus,
But, the ebony-hued of the Liberator:-

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