Black Poetry : Oh Black River the Waters within Me

ASHANTA

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Oh Black River the Waters within Me


I know the black rivers that rise upon my feet;
I know the black rivers that brought me through the gates;
I know the black rivers as the black tears form upon my face;
I know the black rivers that sanctified my spirit to grace;
Oh black river that lies upon my soul;
Oh black river you wear the same face as my son;
Oh black river you cleaned the toxins of my son’s soul;
Never the less the carcass was dead, the soul of the repaving winds;
Oh black rivers the cries of the marching waves;
Oh black river you herd the songs one day I shall be free;
Oh black river that lives within thee.

My mama scars, my mama’s feet, my mama Moses, who brought
me cross the rivers of Jordan, oh glory to God I cry to thee;
I bathed in the rivers of the African streams;
I built my hut with the rivers and the clay;
I looked upon the Niles, I danced upon the sea;
I marched in the Deep South’s of the black sea;
I herd the singing of the rivers; I saw the blood, march
Across the opening of the sea;
Oh, black river nobody knows the trouble I have seen;
The black rivers open and said, oh yea, oh yea;
I am the ancestor lean your back against the sea.
My fathers pain, my brothers screams, my chilean scars
No justice no peace, I sing out loud, I cry with pride
The old black rivers continue to live in side.
 

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