WAR Poem: Black Lives Matter, by Victor Munene

White man, give me apiece of your mind. A rotten mind, a backward mind, a mind that lures the black, that back bites the black, that oppress the black. A race, that runs late, on a snack, that wakes up late, that turns black late. I don’t want that mind, that rests on black hands, the hands that pick white to sew onto clothes and pillows that the master lains in the bedroom.

The police teargas the always crying eyes, the eyes that once glommed in the home Africa now no longer glowing in the promised white land . Look at me straight into my eyes while you shoot and blow up my black brains. Oh no it’s not black, it’s not white, it’s just like yours it’s just like the rest of us. Why judge me, while I protest for my rights, for what’s rightfully mine Oh ours.

I’m in the streets for Floyd, Floyd spoke, but it landed on deaf white ears, white threatened ears, all lies, we all know that, our eyes saw, of course your saw, the black, the bad, the useless, the hopeless, the get away with, like your master ancestors did. Shame on you, leave me alone, leave Floyd’s neck alone, leave us alone, we’ve been oppressed enough, Floyd said it, till he could no longer more. We can’t breathe, teargas, pepper spray, water cannons, unlike Floyd we blackly say till the white hears.

Why till today, why white man, you can’t breathe right, clear up your nose you will be fine. But not on my neck, take a break white man, you rogue law enforcer. Wait till we catch up with you in the streets, wailing, for our solely forgotten rights. This is our home too, our forefathers told us so. The dreadlocks, ours, the corn rows, ours. Keep it, the death row, that’s yours. The ones before us fought so long, for us, both black and white, why white man why, why not make it white between us.

Fight black man , like our ancestors did black man, for our always forgotten rights black man, like our forefathers for our future generation black man. Oh white man, spare us some free time white man unlike our forefathers white man. Black lives matter, that’s our main goal white man, things should change white man, unlike your white forefathers white man. As we sing, in solidarity, for our lost, for our gone, all for to come.