Category : Poems

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Trapped (Caution, read with an open mind) 

As I write these lines and as they  sway back in time 
I look through my minds eyes and by the grace of the divine 
I want to say that, I FORGIVE YOU Its the hardest thing to do but I do.

 TRAPPED

 Trapped in my DNA is a different place a different time a different state of mind. 

Trapped in my DNA are the wondering souls of warriors kings and queens tribal leaders and the common Men Women and children. 

Trapped in my DNA are the souls of my ancestors that your ancestors murdered through your Jim Crow and Willie Lynch laws that still exist today. 

Trapped in my DNA are the Men, Women and children, beaten and hung like pieces of your renaissance art as your ancestors treat us not like humans but as the wild game meat And as garbage on the street. 

Trapped in my DNA are the blood and tears that flow as their pain still we do feel as the Black Skin mostly is deemed unfit to your society as the murderous Laws created by your founding fathers  still exist today Like the sun in the blue sky Their laws revised they never change.

 Trapped in my DNA is knowing  that what you have today, and what you have achieved Was created by the hands of slaves. Command and conquer Seems to be the definition Of your democracy Your way or no way I see your the pirates Of the 21st century to this very day.

 Trapped in my DNA a different place
 a different time 
a different state of mind but as human as we are yesterday and today.

I FORGIVE YOU AS I know my history and that my people are great as I am my ancestors and my ancestors lives through me this is a different place a different time a different state of mind only love can defeat hate. 

TRAPPED
I am black 
I am beautiful 

And i will never forget 
TRAPPED.

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Romaine Davy