Confliction
Waiting for Him to come
A chariot moving so slowly or is there a chariot surmised
Will I wear the gossamer dress or ever floating above the Gazing Sun
To be educated by the opressor of whom feeds my family
Only to find a perfect conformity
In man's lesson
A bossom filled with conflicting melenated pumps
As the people of my tribe raped long ago
Reflects on my native tongue, my color, my confliction
Who am i? I ask the teacher
My mother answering in her taught ways
We are African American
Not French Speaking, Portuguese Speaking, or Spanish speaking, but English speaking.
Are we Englishman? No she answers
So what are we?
As tears stream down, the fellowship with my black brothers and sisters in church
Caught me off guard. The sweetness I feel of praise
Should not be confused with the religion applied on top of it
See this freedom is already in me
It was here before they put a label to it with a white man on it
My freedom was here before I came out of my mother because the freedom existed before allvof us were born
I was the freedom of a thought between two
That physically manifested
Created and birthed like everyone and everything else
So how can this confliction
Be so real?
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