Slavery Chains

You took the chains from slavery and implanted them in my brain.
So I can’t think straight and now I’m going insane.
You took the vestiges of slavery and implanted them in my mind.
Specifically the occipital lobe and because of that now I’m blind.
Then you took the whips of the old plantation.
You used them again in order to prevent my hope for salvation.
You replaced them with policemen’s batons.
You tried to beat me when I did no wrong.
You got my father locked up in jail because he hit a white man.
You left out the part that my father was dragged into some farmland
Where he was beaten with a bat and cut with a knife as he begged for his life.
All this cause he accidentally stepped on new leather boots of a man that was white.
Then you recognized his son, my brother, and took more revenge by killing him instead.
All he was did was walk down the street to the store trying to buy some bread.
You waited outside in your candy apple pick-up waiting like a fiend.
As he came out you shot him in the heart, my brother who was only eighteen.
My mother fell into depression; the world took her baby, who is now in God’s care.
And because my father wasn’t around to work she had to get on welfare
Society do tell what you have in store for me.
For it was you who controlled the fate of my family, ancestors and all others before me.
So what is in store for the young black woman of today?
I’m tired of sitting here hoping everything is gonna be okay.
Go ahead tell me now since you fuck with my life anyway.
No, no I will not become what you expect.
I aint just another nigger running around during your hunting season.
I won’t let you shoot me down, I will stand strong with nia and reason.
I will remove the constraints of ignorance that have been placed on me
Then remove those which have been placed on you.
I will not only free myself,
This black gurl
On the bottom of oppressions’ pole
Will free all the locked minds of the world.