Black Poetry : Let go of the knife

asimplepoet

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Somewhere between paradise and diaster
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Teacher
When you are a hammer everything looks like a nail

And it seems that when you're black everything's about race

All of our troubles in the black community are not soley due to racism

Sometimes we must admit that there are wounds that are self-inflicted

Before you get in a tizzy I'm not denying that racial injustices still exist.

And they they are a big obstacle that we must overcome

But we must take responsibility for the damage done by us to us

We hold the knife that continues to rip us open at the seams

Take a close look at our community and what do you see:

unwed mothers,

absent fathers,

glorification of crime,

high dropout rates,

blissful ignorance,

Money worshipped as God,

immoral behavoir paraded as the norm

and so many more open sores

When will we start to heal from within

And become united as one phenomanal force

Not a hand holding kumbaya lovefest

But a joined front that empowers the community

The question of how to best tackle our faults has been often asked

But it is left unanswered like an incomplete assignment

We must first emphasize the value and necessity of education

and stress the benefits of individual initiative

That says I will pull my self up by bootstraps if I have to

Because we must learn to self-love and self-help

If we are to ever get beyond the insanity of today

We must take full ownership of our own destructive ways

Before we begin to fight that which seeks to keeps us all bound

Brothers and sister it time to get down to the business of healing us

Our very lives depend upon us removing the knife from our lifeline

Not a knife in the back but one that is held by our own hand

I dare you to step out and dare to be different then the next

Dare to be the hand that drops the knife first
 
STANDING OVATION!

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Like they say in chuuch, "If you can't say 'Amen,' just say, "OUCH!"

Gurl, you gone make me pull out my white handkerchief and start waving it!

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