One day, life will leave my battered carcass.
One day, I will no longer belong to this rotten world.
Today, my suicidal urges mock Death with laughter.
I waste the breath of life that my universal force gave me freely.
I came from the darkness, and I shall end in the furnaces of my own destruction.
Doing good is a duty, to soothe the wrath of the Creator.
I will end in the flames of my own hell.
Like all those innocent souls, I too have suffered.
I know every face of death.
I have worn every mask of misery.
I am but an ignorant man, aware of his ignorance,
Thirsty for knowledge like the builders of the pyramids.
I chose to laugh so my demons would remain silent.
Since I learned to walk, my tears have dried.
I stand for truth, justice, liberty, equality, and righteousness.
I believe fraternity is an absurd notion, drenched in hypocrisy.
I hate the racists who preached humanism and universalism
Only to sanctify racialism and supremacism.
There's nothing positive about racism
However, this cancer dehumanizes everyone
This bacterium kills all good pisum sativum
All necessary ingredients that distinguish a human
From something worst than a sinful animal.
There's nothing good about racism
The racists are the naughty scums of the es
The vile predators that thrive on controversial
Issues, the narcissistic skunks, and the bogus kites
That won't fly during a storm of schism and racialism.
Racism is reserved for the worst fetid pest
Racism is of course for the worst of the worst
Racism is indeed for the funkiest of the funkiest
Racism is reserved for the most hangdog waste
Slavery is the original bigot of racism and bias
From this narcissistic evil begets race and unfairness
Slavery is an abhorrent crime against humanness
The most abject and fusty form of selfishness.
Copyright © July 2020, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry
It is a sin being born black
Worse to grow and walk the streets of Minneapolis
It is a sin unforgiven son
Every blackman’s crime is a death crime
You’re the crime the police stand against
Your dark skin, robust stature and resilience
Remnant of slavery you are, you stand tall, walk tall
Today a victim of racialism, you foster equality
Across the world’s length and its breadth
A sin will be sanctified by this strangled breath
On these streets and its system son
You can’t breathe till this sin is scorned
Bells will chime in time for this crime
That holds as death every blackman’s need
And as one the world will stand indeed
To halt the crime of being born black!
Oh, George!
Drowning in our incubus sleep,
phantom enemies are devised.
Easy answers for night terrors.
Social purgatory for the stranger,
Our river Styx for the brown ones.
Our fortress must wall them out.
Brown poverty is culpable.
Starving families must be criminals.
Racialism winking and nodding.
Jingoism sneering and taunting.
Everyone knows the words.
ICE round up the suspects.
Our delirious sorcery making police raids.
For us wall builders, it is always midnight.
For us distracted, there is never safety.
We are detainees of our nightmare,
POWs of our wraiths.
The smeared tirades offer glaucoma.
The duplicitous liars supply our slumber.
The scapegoating harangues support our night blindness.
Yet, we always awaken sweating
in our witless twisted sheets.
Don’t Stop
If you are thinking bright
Planning for something right
For the betterment of mankind
Want peace for every mind
Then step forward and don’t stop
If you are seeking a holy path
For the spirituality and love of God (Allah)
For comfort and delight
So obey your God (Allah) every day
Then step forward and don’t stop
If you have plan to something write
For the humanity and better life
For love of nature
And all His creature(s)
Then step forward and don’t stop
If you are struggling for public utilities
For removing their burden and humiliations
For removing the dark clouds of racism & racialism
If you want to inspire people for brotherhood communism
Then step forward and don’t stop
Poetess S. Nadia Azam Shah Bukhari.
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