We Resilient

They want to see us silent, sleeping,  sunken, drunken

They want our spirits blistered, battered, broken, lynched and choking on years 

of fears fractured

The clanking cracking of the chains imprisoned brains and some remained stained to this day. 

No longer do we hunger for others' approval. It’s a removal of the shackles off our souls.

We are righteous running, radicals rebels

We are resilient love, brilliant love, the fulfillment of eons of expansive light.

We are sunlit cosmic walking miracles

African skylines camouflaged in Babylon's lies.

We carry torches with heart purifying energy

We come marching; legs spiraling like deep tree roots embedded in ancient soil

Fingers leaking dripping with our inheritance of enlightenment

We’ve been battered with backbones shattering for thousands of years.

The only silence we seek is the sweet solace of serenity savoring soul food from saints and sages in night time seeking spirit fire for ammunition.

Our actions and voices are still roaring but with volumes off the pentatonic scales.

Carrying forces of freedom in hollering hurricanes with whirlwinds as worlds spin from spirit realms so steep; go deep

Lifting up Atlantic Ocean tongues untangling 

from algae and seaweed

We see seeds bloomed from concrete providing substance to an entire ecosystem in a system 

designed to try and redesign not elevate the divine in our existence as the clever mystics

I pray for my ancestors in tongues that were 

erased and now resurfacing in my genetic 

coding holding onto that which was and 

new infinite openings; 

Opening to necessary 

narratives navigating true 

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