We do this for the ones who didn’t make it
Honoring ways ancestors shaped it
Prayed it forward to help initiate these changes
Leading us across paths to greatness
Contributing to the roses growing
Up through the pavement
Paving new roads to access higher wavelengths
Reaching for our achievements on a daily basis
Despite detours towards our destinations
We are
Destined to go soooo far
Phoenix rising amidst the blaze
Magnitude of destruction to date
Too hard to gauge, fate too far to parlay
What an awful way to get caught up in the fray
Power untamed tends to devastate
Dis-ease of the body and the brain
Manifests in a plentiful haze
Colonized brains trained to perpetuate hate
Recollecting the stains and how
We’ve been systemically drained
Still we make the most of our days
We’re claiming all the time and space
For hearts we could and couldn’t sustain
And all the
Feelings we can no longer contain
Damage too much to abstain
Wondering why it’s hard to relate
Empathy boxed up like freight
Food for the thought or just to taste
We’ve been given different stakes
We are not from the same place
We’re not moving at the same rates
We do not have the same rage
They instigate wars just to show face
Then claim grounds already maintained
Many stolen from lands and never repaid
Land then taken and buffed away
Loved ones cuffed away, stuffed away,
Landing in faraway graves.
Forced to live off unfamiliar grains
Expected to drink from polluted water ways
Culturally raped by displaced faith
Constantly phased by unfair wage
Doing the most for the least amount of pay
Our communities torn apart without a say
Language gained, tongue unclaimed
Our histories they tried to erase
Our families they constantly take
They look at us with the same ole gaze
Call us by the same wrong names
Clump us together and call it race
Conveniently forget the pain only to
Compliment us on our grace
Expecting us to say thanks
We do not owe them a damn thing and
We do not have to explain
We will not give our praise
Without honorable exchange
We will not carry the weight of their shame
Nor their guilt, or their reign
The truth we speak
It’s alive and it will not be tamed
Whether you hear it or read it on a page
Feel it vibrating across a higher range
We are activating the healing we crave
We are shifting the narratives they tried to shape
Ready or not, we are here to stay
Sanctified souls, no pearly gates
Just gains on gains on gains
We will not refrain
We will remain
We will remember the paths in which we came
The same paths our ancestors paved
We are not fit for their boxes or their cages
Can’t stop us from embracing
The multitude of traits
It takes to make
Up our beautiful mosaics
All the shades of our faces,
Shapes of our eyelids,
Textures of our hairs,
Truths behind these irises
We are gardens blooming beyond the stardust
The blood in our veins contains
The wisdoms that bind us
Can’t keep us
Quiet
While we sing and praise to the highest
We’re lifted on an alternate vibration and we’re taking it higher
This is the resurrection of the people we were bred from
Reconciling the rekindling of our kin across generations
Collective re-visioning leading us to
Regenerative transformation
The love we spew
Fuels revelations
Preparation pairs well with patience but
Practice is different when accessing greatness
Actions speak louder than explanations, still
Healing is done in stages and
Reparations still need to be made and then some
They better pay attention
Better yet
Pay up
C) 2022 Signature MiMi
