Tag: black woman

african, art, love, poetry

You Thought Wrong, Bitch, Not Today

tahtahme

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There’s no real way to describe the fight
That ends up killing you–it takes so many nights
To build and wear and tear you down
To smack your face and steal your crown.
To show you how naive you’d been
Believin your power went past your whim…

Life doesn’t let you see it come, though–
Amused with you, she’ll take it slow,
And right when your smile couldn’t get wider,
Right when that high just couldn’t get higher?
She has a way of passing peaks
To slap you full on both your cheeks.

“You thought it’d go like this,” she say.
“You thought wrong, bitch, not today.
I got a bigger plan in mind,
You’re not in it–get left behind.”

I can’t complain. She speaks the truth.
We all embrace a boastful youth,
But in the end we all must learn,
When one man wins, another burns–
That’s simple yin/yang in this land.

Ah, but wouldn’t winning be so grand?

Feb

african, art, poetry

Battle Hymn of Tahtahme

tahtahme

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Must climb the mass of spikes and stones
Littering the road that I walk on.
My comrades are angered and we are armed–
I lead the march cuz I am the harm.
No matter what appears, I march on….
And on and on,
Keep moving on.
We all know sad news is never gone…

None can touch me–I’m invincible.
It’s not only reality–it’s the principle.
I lead this group, you may call me Constable.

Faith is not an option, it is requirement.
I run to the comforting sound of what love meant.

I am not scared–that’s not faith, so,
I keep fear at bay wherever I go.

I like my own tune, so I’ll maintain what I’ve said
For I march to the sound of the drums in my head.

Some drums boom, others just tat.
How could I not know the sound of that?
It’s the sound of justice when the soul calls to move–
The sound of my heart when strong words speak the truth.
It’s the sound of a gun before a life dies,
The echo of the brain when the mouth tells lies.
I listen, hope, live for it
If others could hear, they would try for it.

My fighting doesn’t end with someone else wronged,
But someday in the future when we all get along…

2006