"I Am A Black Man"

“I am a Black MAN”       

I am a black man...Standing so tall and bold.

I am a black man, check the Jordan sign on my sole.

No pun intended there, he just has us under control.

I am a black man...standing so broad and proud.

I make the pennies for my family, I made it here from the ground

I am a black man...I come from a different world.

My hair is jet black and comes in form of a curl.

I am a black man...I want to ball like Lebron.

           Always overlooking the brains and going straight for the brawn.

I am a black man...im hustling in the streets.

Counting the children whose fathers were deadbeats.

I am a black man writing poems at the age of eleven.

          Sometimes I wonder if I could even get to Heaven.

I am a black man...holding a gun at the age of nine…

I should have been dead already but I guess it wasn’t my time.

POW.

-Kyrin Cosse