At Days End...

All day, my inner voice has been whispering...It's black history month. What do you have to say? I try to address the issues of the time (consciousness) through my words. I wrote something last year around this time...a lot of people may be unfamiliar. So, I decided to share...

BUT first, I must offer you a premise: This work stems from an acknowledgement of self: who I was, who I am, and who I am becoming. In doing so, I become aware of my race and our struggle. It pains me, so much, because we have so much work to do...

That being said, without further ado, my STATE OF THE UNION

It's not enough to know anymore

WE gotta grow, and show we can soar

Sayin its his fault is lame

Its your fault you remain the same

Constantly fighting to be better than before

The ones before us have opened the door

It lies within us to carry on the dream

Sometimes it makes me want to scream

Watching generations behind me come up

Unaware of just how much they're given up

On dreams of yesterday. Shyt is crazy

Tired of hearin, they're just babies

Our tomorrow starts today

Instilling pride in our ancestry is the way

Sharing stories of Marcus Garvey, Douglass,

Fannie Lou Hamer and Chisholm to name a few

Freedom Fighters, Writers, Teachers, even YOU

We owe it to ourselves and our history

To be better than our current society

The woes of the oppressor

Knocking out our predecessor

And all that we've accomplished

I challenge you to acquire knowledge

Removing our history from the books

When's the last time you took a look?

Lynching ourselves daily is sad

Ignorance is bliss, its so bad

No one can better us but WE

Lifting as we climb, promoting unity

WE may have changed, but not enough

Not even close to being freed, its still rough

Remove the blinders and open the mind

Society has shackled us over time

Thought processes breeding negativity

As my soul bleeds positiveness positively

Not fighting alone, but very few in number

What God brings together, Man can't put asunder

There's more of us behind bars

Than there are of us being stars

Institutionalized in our thinking

Caught up in societal teachings

Everything that we've become

Is because of what we've done

Pointing fingers and complaining

Will never evoke positive changing

If you want to be treated better, be better

Pick up a book, sit at the feet of elders

Place it in your mind

That you CANNOT sit on the sidelines

That's not good enough anymore

We had such fire in us before

To fight the good fight for freedom

It seems our passion has grown numb

The urgency to exceed got lost in complacency

Which warrants a dormant necessity

Purge away the need for conformity

Pick up your piece of unity

Join in the fight against powers that be

So that we as a people succeed

In living out those dreams deferred

No longer should they be deterred

We hold these truths to be self evident

We even have a black president!

The time has come for us to empower

We MUST take back the power.

I DARE YOU...

~Sagacious