The present black child;
lost in the moment that adds to tomorrow;
Focuses on the ghetto delight that is circumstantial;
Shackled down by the superiority complex that defines you as a minnow;
Still you endeavor to withstand the longevity of time;
Succumbing to the fixation of musical icons;
fascinated by the pseudo-intellectualism that represents self;
You glorify the street life while seeking love and redemption;
Believing that through guns blasting, sexual promiscuities, and high price fashion;
The ghetto warfare puts you in a state that is so unclear;
Brave hearts in despair, gang banging, drive by shootings are the day to day reality that flares;
Permeating through the hoods;
Crips, Bloods, and Latin-Kings where created to over ride oppression and destruction;
But the congregations has been viewed as the parasite of your nation;
Seek your eternal dreams; the ones that keeps you in tune to what is real;
Never lose hope of the goal that shines and gleams;
Your elders of past times have set you free;
Remember their means;
They will emancipate you from contorted ideological themes;
Ancient times lost in line;
Ghetto child stand firm on the truth that will keep you in pursuit;
Arrest the hands that tics and tocs;
For every motion that it makes will signify your faith;
And notice that the sky no longer has its limits;
It has been revealed through men's the technological gimmicks
Written by: Ricky Mitchell
Copyright 2007
THIS POEM OF A BLACK CHILD DOES EXACTLY AS IT IS SUPPOSE TO; IT DESCRIBES A TYPICAL LIFE OF A BLACK CHILD. THUS, AS I READ ON AND ON I GET A CLEAR IMAGE OF A NEWBORN BABY THAT IS COMING INTO A WORLD AND HAS TO ADAPT TO A SURROUNDING THAT IS ALREADY SET FORTH IN HIS/HER PATH YET, HIS/HERS' HIGHEST POTENTIAL IS WITHIN THEIR HEARTS AND MIND.THEREFORE REALIZING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD HELPS THEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT MAKING IT TO THE FUTURE IS NOT AS HARD AS SOCIETY MAKES IT SEEM.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your commentaries Nicole. It is quite interesting to extract, I think, the fundamental day to day view points of the Black Child. These were just a synopsis of my outlook. God willing; More to follow.
ReplyDeleteGod Speed.