silent chains
Silent chains
They drag across the floor
rusted and worn
they extend through time
you can try and run away
but the chains they stay
these chains hold us down
pigment stratification
men and women bound
the real chains gone long ago
but these silent chains remain
you are free
but only in name
because no matter where you go
there are those silent chains
around your ankles
scraping at the skin
reminding you
how you're not the same
white men can spit on you
white men can piss on you
and it will always be you fault
because you were the silent chains
because though they make no sound
they are visible from a mile away
but one does not fear the chains
we remember the chains
because with chains come change
the chaining of the heart
pushes us to art
and art has no chains
art can only be unbound
sometimes art is sound
sound can pass across those colors
sound does not take notice of the chains
who are silent anyways
we can make music
because music will help us overcome
because music will make a new chain
a black and white chain
a red white and blue chain
this chain will hold us all together
though it has no links
it does have notes
aretha sang it for respect
james brown was loud
black and proud
it was a black sound
but art is much more profound
you have shades in art and music
shades add magnificence if you use it
the stones took a muddy sound
made it to a rocking sound
janis joplin payed her dues
listened to odetta,bessie,and billie
a white girl sang the blues
kicked out of texas
she didn't play the racist rules
zeppelin took a delta noise
shook it up and spun it around
now you have a metal sound
and on and on until today
though the silent chains still do drag
the chains of voice clank up and down
because the music of the ehart has no color
it bring us close to one another
from then till now it has shaped the sound we hear around
music can teach us empathy
because we cannot feel color
because music creates no barrier
music can not harm
music can only lift and free
take no alarm
one day the music
will release the silent chains which have bound you by the arm
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