Some weeks before the September 11th attack
America came back from a International Conference on Racism
in Durban S. Africa.
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With relative ease
they sought to appease my torment
They even lent their insight
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This poem is based on Eze 37....
The Sinew Has Been Called
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born grey in a black and white society... like Obama I have suffered the tramau of being half black and half white grey matters (between black and white))
Measure Of A Man
Measure of a Man
The measure of a man in this land
is the money he possesses
Not the deeper recesses
of his mind or soul...
What other way to know the measure of a man?
Compassionate use of accumulated wealth
has historically evaded those who have acquired by stealth
Better to give than receive is a lost concept
lost to personal greed.
Now it is the belief in me-myself-and I
only on egocentricity can I rely
is the measure of a man in this land.
Is this the measure of a true man?
First World-Second World-Third World designations
have been used by exploiters with no reservation.
Taking from the poor to give to the rich, what would Robinhood say?
'aint that a b#^%h'...
Well, I know what I say about all I see
it's time to give to him before he takes from me.
now don't misunderstand my words velocity
it's just that I believe in reciprocity.
I've taken the lessons of destruction
and lesson in pain
of historical misinformation and immoral gain
I've seen the social sickness
of the loss of self
I've felt the imposition of ignorance by someone else
and again I ask, What is the measure of man in this land?
By all measure and manifestations of belief
it's what you can take
and who you can deceive........