Best Fire In My Soul Poems
I know what it means
To go to bed without food
To go to school without shoes
To yearn for Eqaul Education
to free your mind
Just to be told you just can't handle
White education
Here's Bantu education for you
I know what Poverty is
I've lived it
I've smelled it
I've Breathed it
Yet never accepted it
Living in a town
with a twisted perverted mentality
That pinned up lil notices
That said:
This town is for white people only
Black dogs may enter through the back door
Because they are our servants
We are your masters
Permanently and perpetually
Using the Bible to take everything
A black man owns
Asserting,
If you accept God in your Life
He will come save you
During your time of need
But you shall not own this land because
God said I should be your Master
A town that still can't accept that
a black man is human too
Not some animal to be
Tarred, Feathered and hung up a tree to die
I've witnessed old wrinkled men
Bow Down with Surbodination
To call a little boy "Baas"
I've witnessed neighbors go dig
Their Loved ones out of the land
They once owned
Because the Master said
I don't want dead people on my Land
Your land?
Did u come carrying land in your boat
when you left The Dutchland?
Did u come carrying Gold,
Diamonds and Platinum
When u left England?
Is that why you feel obliged
to have the black man go down
the earth's pit to get your diamonds
so you can have a nice shiny Crown?
While he goes home
to a table with lil to no food?
Telling him you better not catch him
Walking around this town without
a Passbook,
That grants him that Privilege
I've got Fire in my Soul
Ignited only by true Virtue,
Liberation
I climb beyond human heights
I dare not to be just ordinary
I defy human Limitations
I've got Fire in my Soul
Ignited it burns
Explosive, Subversive
Never to be Subjugated
But Liberated within....
The Fire in My Soul
The fire in my soul is real
as you left me in such a strife,
and no miracles and magic
can now restore my shattered life.
Nothing is left now for me since
the fire in my soul is real.
My spirit cries and I so wince
in pain with a love now so lost.
We must attempt to find our love
again, if perchance we can for
the fire in my soul is real,
and I can’t gone on as before.
I ask God Himself in Heaven
that we can love and now be one,
and restore what we once had for
the fire in my soul is real.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 30, 2015 (Quatern)
The fire in my soul
Was just another chapter
In your insane life.
A safe and loving harbor
For you to come home to
Candle light would glow
In the frosty window
The embers were warm
As you walked through the door
Greeted with passion
Never turned you away
Blind to that other life
You led on the outside
Believed you my true love
As we danced through the night
The candle light dinners
I cooked to perfection
Making sweet love
By the crackling fire
I was played for a fool
Believing your words
Your music so soothing
As I sat with my tears
I forgave you again
And again, and again
Until the forgiving
Had emptied my heart
Yes, the fire in my soul
Was just another chapter
In your insane life………
Until it burned itself out.
It’s Re Life
I took deep breaths
With you on my mind,
With my eyes closed
Eye saw blue morpho
Came close with the Western wind,
And with my heart
wide opened she entered,
Smelling rose and jasmine combined
With few more deep breaths
She chameleoned to you,
Lil as lil fairy, smiling
‘fore my soul you lit my
entire heart like the
full moon that glows
You touched my soul
And my heart began
To melt down slow like
Ice cream in the sun
You lit nulite deep in my
soul, it keeps shining the
more I think of you.
I feel you’re the eternal
fire burning deep in my soul, giving me Re life
A fire in my soul is still burning brightly
After all these years the fire rages nightly
My dreams are filled
Also thoughts unfulfilled
Such is how life goes at times unsightly