sacred mud ( for fannie lou hamer )
by ‘bro .zayid’
I
want the whispers of the ancestors
who
moistened the land with their blood
I
want u
liftin
the eyes of our children
after
they kiss this sacred mud…
want
a church big enuf
for
yr giant spirit
made
by black workers hands…
want
a circle of women in white
of
all ages
washin
u in a sea of praise dance…
want
the hauntin echo of yr golden eggs1
burned
from yr open womb
want
u orderin a column of black angels
to
make sure jim crow
stays
in his tomb…
want yr cloudpartin shouts of power
rared
back
lightin
new stars in the sky…
want
yr quantum leap from sharecropper
to
nonviolent stormtrooper
to
calibrate in bob moses’ 2 eyes…
I
want the inmates’ schizophrenic sweat
from
when they beat u
blue
blood purple and red
want
chickens
to
come home to roost for them crackers
who
wanted to see u dead…
want
yr battle borne blood shot eyes
framin
u tellin our lynchscarred story
want
u lyricizin our triumph
over
evil and terror
sproutin
from yr big chested glory…
want
a church
big
enuf for yr giant spirit
made
by proud
black
workers hands
want
a circle of sisters in white
washin
u in a sea of praise dance…
want
the whispers of the ancestors
who
enriched the land with their spilt blood
want
u raisin the eyes of our children
after
they’ first
kiss
this
sacred mud…
1. Fannie Lou Hamer was sterilized
without her knowledge when she was 30…an act of medical apartheid…
2.Bob Moses, the legendary SNCC
organizer that led to the emergence of Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party. He is also a Math Legend and architect of The Algebra
Project…
‘bro.zayid’ is a well known cub
of the ny chapter of the Black Panther Party…Jazz poet, actor, a People’s
artist, he is currently working on a volume of poetry called ‘The Soul Poems’…
contact him at
babazayid@gmail.com...
©2016
