I am a slave

Inbound to your prison

Slavery ended in 1865

So why does the color of my skin determine my wealth?

What if my pigment was white as snow, would that make me pure?

I am a slave

Beaten for my dignity

Determined because of my identity,

Mentally corrupted from the view of beauty

You failed to enforce the rights that we strived to achieve,

Now i’m burying my sisters and brothers six feet deep

Ignore my screams, silence because everything about me makes an enemy

Holding on to my rights to breathe the oxygen you breathe

This life was a letter,

Unfortunate but true

No fortune teller to describe my future

Because you’ve placed me into your prison

These four walls camps out to stalk my dreams

Bash my human race, just to place our names in your system

Dear government

Are you ashamed of the knowledge you tried so hard to keep secret we’ve been given?

Only god could save us, because you’ve took so much all we have is religion

Stripped me down pass the root of my flesh

Peel back my skin to see that the same red sea that flows through you flows through me

We wanted to be your favorite color,

If it was purple, you’ve beaten us bluish black

If it was red, we bleed because we had pride in places you’ve lacked

Black is royalty

We’ve starved long enough

Quench our thirst with bittersweet taste of acceptance

We’ve ate bullets, the words you spit with hate

We patched wounds that you left

No justice for us black females and males

Our value was determined by the color of our flesh

We will break these chains like before

We will overcome, justice will be served

Because for once African Americans will come together as one to fight for our rights

Demolish the gun that fires shots with every word you’ve said

Withdraw away from things that make us less

Strong uphold

Ancestors built a foundation for us to proceed

Chains and whips held us hostage

Now we are strapped to the views of this society

How can you say no child is left behind

When they're sitting in your cells

While you pave the road to hell

You are Trayvon

I am Trayvon

We are Trayvon

So, who’s going to help us ?

Blend in our differences

Come together to defeat the giant

Goliath fell and we are David

We’ve conquered it once

Repeating it again,

Racism won't win, if we fight to keep a world full of educated black children