Being naïve is a gift

 

It is as if you are asleep, with the peaceful sheep

 

But you are to be awakened from this

 

By the thunderstorms and the rainy days of reality,

 

That was me, you see

 

Sleeping

 

But awaken this year

For I never understood what was going on around me, with my friends and society until it actually hit me Home

 

The struggle that is in this world, but particularly to the black race

 

It's a battle we have not won although we have been fighting for what seems like 10,000 suns

 

We beg and we plead for equality, to be treated as one

 

But instead we are trampled with, thrown down, and they make our words undone

 

This past year alone, I have been awakened

 

To sites that have been covered

 

The mere fact that the existence of slavery in our country is still alive except it is called by a different name

 

That Jim Crow still rules are streets, or children and bring fear to our names

 

That our black population as a whole is crumbling and falling because of the blank white sheets

 

I have been awakened  and no I will not go back to sleep

 

This needs to be changed, and not from the surface

 

It's like a patch, a garden, with weeds on top

We can pull the weeds,  and have the surface clean

 

But we all know that the roots are still there

 

Digging deeper and deeper until we become despaired

 

So no I will not go back to sleep, no I will not forget what I have seen, I will pull these weeds, I will fight this fight, because there is no more black and white there will only be one, you and me and this fight.

 

It's a fight we all see a fight we always fight we must be there to stand and take flight

 

Because those words spoken long ago, I have seen the promised land, have not been able to be sung

 

We have not seen it yet but Let's me and you, see the stars and the moon, but let's see it together without the hate, let's be one just like how our great creator done

Let's all awaken and not be mistaken for there are lives that need to be saving