Of Wolves and Sheep

We laugh
As though the degradation
Of our people
Was funny
We smile
As though we are satisfied
My people were led astray
Not for hundreds of years
As some would say
But since Alexander
Became king of Egypt
Somewhere around BC 332
My people built civilization
We’ve fought your wars
Built your cities
Cleaned up after you
Raised your children
Planted, tended, and harvested
Your crops
While all you did is take
Our history
Lives, family, culture
Freedom...
Does it ever stop?
My people,
Richest and most denied
If only you could remember
When we owned the Nile
It began in Nubia
Way before civilization
We were civilized
How long will we allow
Our creations to be stolen?
As we
Laugh at the degradation
Of our people
And smile as though
We are satisfied
Fuck just reparations
Give us our continent back
Land of diamonds and gold
Elephants and lions
Give our red brethren
Their land back
Those that still draw breath
Go home
To your mountains and snow
Leave the rest of us alone
We don’t want to fight your
Ridiculous war
Survival ain’t easy when
It’s all your allowed
Provided you don’t act too
Independant
We are not terrorist
We are wolves
In sheep’s clothing
Who have been beaten
And misled into
Forgetting the mask we ware
To turn our howls
Into pleading bleats
As sheep in wolves clothing
Lurk in bushes
Dancing around in hoods
Playing cowboys and indians
With fiery crosses and lengths of rope
What if we were to take off
Our sheepskin
Have no mercy for the weak
After all
Why would you send sheep
To fight your battles
But who are we
To ignore massa’s call
Uncle Sam
Who let us become 3/5 of a human
Because there weren’t enough
White southeners
To have political seniority
But the capital city
Was designed
By a black man
I will not stop my struggle
To fight your war
I will not stop fighting
To die for your
Red white and blue
I am a warrior of the
Red Gold Green BLACK
Until you show as much concern
For my well being
As you do for your "doing well"
By any means necessary
For Malcolm, Martin, Marcus
And all of the warriors that
Didn’t make it this far
I put one fist in the air
Cause no smile can soften
The expression of a wolf
Who takes off sheepskin
And bares sharp teeth

by Empress Nzingha

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