1.
We’s Black.
Lost Africans
Pillaged from Africa
For the Mid-Atlantic slave trade.
History is ugly
Yet beautiful.
You know?
2.
We’s Black-
And Black don’t crack!
Which drives white folks crazy
Because they can’t guess our ages!
They have themselves to blame.
Calling men “boys”
Too long.
3.
I too
Call this land “home”
Because it’s all I’ve known.
But my home is dysfunctional.
Uncle Sam’s abusive,
And negligent.
Lord why?
4.
Langston
Lived out his dreams
By writing poetry.
Letting them be deferred
Would have been a calamity
Of epic proportions.
This world needs Black
Poets.
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Keith M. Kelley | Poet 