This is me
Munyerenkana Germaine Namegabe
Has raised me to be independent
Has given me indescribable strength
Acquires my character to be unique
Foreign like my ancestors are
So do I have documents to work
Let alone can I speak English
Are interrogating questions I face
Behind Munyerenkana Namegabe
Moon-year-ren-kana is an African American
Who speaks fluent English
Yet restricted from opportunities given
Munyerenkana automatically prohibits
My oppurtunites and others to pronounce it
Munyerenkana is not worth sounding out
Instead we become ignorant and question
Questioning things learned in grade school
All because of Munyerenkana Namegabe
I am courageous like the definition
My name brings chaos but means heroic
This will not define me my actions will
Pen and Paper give me freedom and restriction
Can I truly be free with words
Or threatened is an unanswered question
I'm like a chameleon I blend in
Society says stand up straight
I respond accordingly or I'm lazy
I'm told talk proper or your ghetto
All actions being used to fit in
I take action with my script
Words can mean everything or nothing
So I say what do words mean
Words let me explain
Explain how I feel
Being Munyerenkana Namegabe
My peers laugh and joke
To me I see no humor
I feel pain and hatred
Towards my parents and peers
Why make my name hard
Why must we be African
Until I grew to understand
I represent my fathers mother
Who passed when he was younger
I represent true African Americans
My parents derive from Congo
I on the other hand
Came from a thirteen colony
Yet my peers give me negativity
Saying I'm not American, I am
I was born in Connecticut raised
In Tennessee I'm a country girl
Poetry is my voice in a world
Were mute is me due to
My lack of hierarchy but
Knowledge I do not lack
Knowledge was gained
Through these stanzas
I'm screaming in lowercase
Letters my truths about
Munyerenkana Namegabe
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I SAID! This is me