The breaking down of a nation

posted fb 02/02/14

#361 Black box

Black African

Black British

Black Caribbean

Black mixed

Black other

Black, Black, Black, Black, Black, Black box

I will not tick that box

I will not be catogerised

I will not be catologued

I will not be filed away and denied

I will not cower under the chains

that you  have over me

I will, I will, I will be free

I have not be programmed

I cannot be debugged

I have slipped through the matrix

I stand before you definitely

I know where I am going

I know where I am from

I have had it with singing

all those slave songs

I will not be a singer

no running for me  

I will not stand behind the counter

and say “Do you want fries with that please?”

I have not come to march

freedom is too difficult to achieve

I am that loose cannon

I am all your nightmare dreams

I am that face that you see

when you wake with a scream

I look in the mirror I know what I see

racism, imprisonment no justice here for me

I will be going to the university

to collect many degrees

despite the fact my social etiquette

has it stacked against me

I am not poor

I am broke

these are my words

carefully chosen

I have spoke