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You want me to be quiet…
You want me to be quiet…
Don’t speak a word…
Keep it to myself, right?
Cos I might make white folks
Feel uncomfortable….
You said it’s not the right time
To talk, to post…
When?
Cos racism comes and lingers
All the damn time….
White folks created this mess…
It’s theirs….they made white
Most favorite color in the globe…
Am I lyin?
Am I tellin a fib?
Nope…..
I don’t have to be quiet…
I don’t want to….
I am dangerous…
A bold woman
You may shut my social media down
You may cancel me
Send me death threats
But you will leave my family alone
Leave my friends alone….
I won’t compromise
I won’t comply
You can try to talk to me
At a corner…
It’s not goin to change my mind….
You can use a black friend
To convince me to stay silent…
I will shake my head no…
I’m okay
Being in trouble….
I’m okay
with losin friends
Yes my feelings will get hurt
But how come it’s a problem
When the world stands up for
Black people?
Do you really have to say
With your actions that
We’re not human?
I may not be an activist…
I may not be an advocate…
However
My black poetry give my people
A voice…raw sound to make them feel
To make them express, to make them
Heal without apology….
And you got a fuckin nerve to
Tell me to be quiet….
I’m not afraid…
I’m not afraid of that white man…
If he makes me vanish,
Then he will never know peace
Anymore
Even if he sleeps peacefully at night
He will never know what peace
Looks like
Cos the world will remind him
Of my poems
Of what I wrote about him
Of what he has done to me….
People might recite
My words to torture his ass
Purposefully…I know libraries
And bookshops might ban my soul
Cos of this truth…truth quivers
Evil souls…
You can’t really quiet me
I’m in someone’s heart….actually
I’m restin myself back in the
Back of your thoughts…
Yes I’m hauntin….
You want me to be quiet….
I won’t…
I never will…
You may try to find ways to
Get rid of your mirror
Though
It’s still there….
Cos the world is still talkin…
You can ignore
Cover your ears
Walk out
Yet I’m still speakin….
You can never tell people
To stop discussin
About me and my black poetry
Cos there are facts over deep emotions…
You can yell
You can shout
Throw a tantrum
I don’t stop
My spirit doesn’t stop…
Use voodoo magic
And I still don’t stop….
You know damn well
Racism white supremacy
Murders black people….
The system is still killin
Black bodies everyday
And I should shut the fuck up…
Absolutely not….
✊🏿💯©️Kai C. 8-11-26