As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace Be Unto You)

Grits ( From new book Dashiki Mentality Coming Soon)

Grits, Dummy
I don’t know this language of the white man
just see the gun in his hand
so i figured i’d get on the boat or lose my life
a hell of choice to make, Live or fight

Grits, Dummy
Dummy means replica of a human being
not every open eye is seeing
Not every closed eye is sleep
what we sow will reap

Grits, Dummy
Your roots will tell all
ancestors didn’t just fall
elders did not fail
and elders will tell

Grits, Dummy
Cotton picker picking cotton
long ago but never forgotten
pick sugar cane or be slain
pickaninny game

(C) Jenavia Powell 2024

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Proud Self published Poet Nameste!

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Here's a piece coming from my book, Dashiki Mentality... 👇🏾

I hung a modern day klansman
With my longest and strongest loc
Carrying the enslavement memories
I have not forgot....
... Like...
branded flesh scattered on grass
fallen from falsely named skeletons
Blood sprayed on leaves like shattered glass
Lifelines of melanin

(c) jenavia Powell 2024 Dashiki Mentality coming April 2024