yesterday u put yr albums with my my pictures in yr deepest cabinets
i saw u trace my cheeks with yr tears with yr wet finger
becuz i dissappeared again
and the door shook again under firm fists
the police came again
mom i ironed yr dress today i washed that yellow flowered dress scented it lightly with yr perfume ironed it stiff fr u
dad i stood over yr sleeping body for an hour trying to find the words to set u free from thoughts that lay across yr mind like bars imprisoning u
mom dad i cooked breakfast before i walked out yr door into a waiting van onto a waiting street into exile
and don't tell me u didn't raise yr boy to be a soldier becuz u armed me with pride and sharpened my tongue
dad i stood over u remixing my intentions laying out my solo practicing a soliloquey that never came to me so i left without a goodbye hoping to come back without a hello and weave myself back into our family seamlessly as we forge a new community together
becuz i dedicate my body my life everything that i've built up to the day when u can stand tall and look a man in eye without landing in the mud
i saw u in the mud i saw u whimper
u don't speak the word revolution but it screams of u dad
u may speak of me in whispers in corners but i shout u in daylight
we build music to the sound of black feet running tried to chorus that sound in war chants sung in protest melodies
it's not the tear gas talking it's a mouth that cannot be quieted its my mouth speaking it's my mouth shouting for peace it's my mouth with a rag in it
it's my mouth speaking for u
==**peace**==
"the skilled binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound would be impossible." Lao Tzu
"I'm proud to be your woman not your girl" Jill Scott
DomePoem Poets; redefining the third dimension of spoken word
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"Who need fossil fuel when the sun ain't goin' nowhere" - Amiri Baraka