Black

Black is tired

Black would like to make a statement

Black is tired

Black's eyes are vacant

Black's arms are leaden

Black's tongue cannot taste shit

Black's stomach cannot compress death and

Black would like to state that Black is not a beast of myth

To be slain in a fable

Recounted ontop a round table

Surrounded by blue-collared brave men and

Black has demands

Black demands baton-proof bones and bullet resistant skin

Black thinks no person this trigger-nervous deserves a gun

Much less a badge

And Black knows one day its arms will be up

Its lips pinned, but its shadow

Its shadow will be reaching for something

That isn't there and that'll be enough

Black says keep your 40 acres

Just let Black reach for the end of the street

Let Black reach for the last Skittle sweet

Just Let Black reach into Black's own car

Let black reach into Black's own lungs

Black doesn't want his young ones seeing their fathers dead on Youtube

Pausing halfway through clips just to keep them alive

Black says it's always been like this

It's you who's late to woke

And Black has seen your grin

Your grin is a cutlass flag

And Black's hands are bleeding

From gripping the knife edge you offered

On your side of the handshake

Go write your thoughts and prayers on a piece of paper

Fling it at the moon, see what that'll do

You call for calm, you call for peace

Like sacrifices on mountain peaks

It doesn't end the palava

Might be calm at the top

Underneath is still the lava

Black is angry now

Black is in pain

And Black's nerves are fireflies dancing with grief

A curse-word trapped in a bracket

A sentence too intense for one full stop

Black says that you don't understand

Black says that you cannot compare

Black says this pain is too pepper

Black say that you cannot digest

Black says how can you relate?

When these black lips are this full

And this Black praise is dance!

This Black sorrow is dance

This Black praise is dance

This Black struggle is dance

And this Black pain is dance

This Black struggle is dance

And this Black praise is dance

Just leave Black be

You already have the world

Just leave Black be

Leave us alone