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World War 3: The War to Finally be Free** Every day since the last big war The “Powers That Be” have prepared for the next one More bombs, more planes More bullets, more games played to win One small pawn at the edge of the board So many different days, different games The players they change but the Game of killing and death never stops We closed schools and Meals on Wheels All because some men in black suits said This was more important than that Little children died Mothers of color have cried over their babies And then – their full-grown sons The price that was paid It was required they all said The Communists! The Terrorists must not win! It was win at all cost But did anyone stop To think of the lives that were lost The Black Lives that were tossed into prison And promptly forgotten The War on Terror The War on Drugs The War on Gays The War on Thugs in gangs The Men in Power don’t really care What it is that they a...

Conversion Therapy of a Very Different Sort How does change come? Just how do the wicked truly repent? Do you believe a criminal can become a lawful man? Can a murderer receive a transplanted heart - But not of human hands? Jesus seemed to think so As he told the thief on the cross Truly, you will be with me in paradise A deathbed conversion if ever I saw one The sins of one flawed man are too many to enumerate I speak from personal experience But the sins of a flawed nation are so expansive As to be almost infinite in scale A nation of slavers for over 400 years – in varying degrees We sold kidnapped children for less than the price of a proven mule We tore mothers from their babies to wet-nurse our own desires We hung black men from limbs of the live-oak tree We left their bodies to hang and rot as if they were Spanish Moss We bombed the 16 th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham We killed four black children attending Sunday School And as they sang Jesus loves me – this I...

God is an alien; He is not us He is so other as to be unrecognizable to Pat Robertson or Franklin Graham All things began at his word - such power is inconceivable Einstein could barely comprehend it And we are fools if we believe The silly tales and doctrines of men Copernicus saw the truth and then published On the Revolution of Celestial Spheres Galileo Galilei believed and began the Scientific Method The Roman Inquisition said science contradicted the Holy Writ In 1837, William Harper wrote that slavery was no necessary evil He said slavery was a gift of God to the white man Which proves my point that God is an alien He is as different from us as the amoeba is from a rocket ship The amoeba travels by using a pseudopod The Falcon 9 rocket is built and flown by SpaceX It is the vision of seeing something no one has ever seen before It is the faith to believe there is another way The Way It Is was a song written by Bruce Hornsby It was released in September of ‘86 I need to remember ...

its too much its too heavy its more than I can carry its 10 lbs. of flour in a 5 lb. sack its maybe – my cup runneth over - but not in the way you are thinking there may be times – there might be days when joy is the thing that’s overflowing maybe in some faraway land when people live together without killing without killing school children with an AR-15 without killing black men under a policemen’s knee without raping women – and throwing away the kit without a President grabbing women in their most private places without building highways through black neighborhoods and garbage dumps near their neighborhood schools since white folks have all the privilege not-in-my-backyard is only an option when you have the power without yet another black mother shrieking in pain her grief too great for spoken words without the need for setting fires and broken windows such things are used as only a last resort the judge in court never raises his voice because he’s sitting up high holding the gavel...

This is a world of contradiction Which makes me wonder about the God who made it On any given day – there is the wonder and beauty of sunrise The dew sparkling on trees and wildflowers And almost blasphemous At that instant A beloved dies And that is the blessing and curse of living The terrible juxtaposition of death and life We must choose – you and I We must decide if we are able Are we strong enough to hold death and life in our hands We fail the gods if we drop either burden Because life fully lived is heavy As it is sprinkled throughout with dying Children before their time And wicked men live too long for our liking There is no explaining it If we are wise – there is only acceptance But in the intervening days We scream and grieve We curse the darkness and pray for light We mourn the good who died unjustly We wail at the destruction of peace by the power of the wicked We demand – and rightly – we demand justice for the aggrieved For Breonna and George For the twenty dead childre...

Cain killed Abel because of jealousy King David killed Uriah the Hittite because of lust Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver And Brutus stabbed Caesar – despite his dying pleas And John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln as he watched a play at Ford's Theater And Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from a window in the Dallas Book Depository And James Earl Ray shot Dr. King as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel And Malcolm X – born Malcolm Little – died in a ballroom in Washington Heights They say the FBI encouraged it, but no one could prove why it happened in the end And Mississippi was burning in June of 1964 And racial hatred still burns there – inflamed until this present day Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman – were killed by the KKK For helping register black people to vote And James Alex Fields, Jr. killed Heather Heyer A Neo-Nazi skinhead – whose blind hate drove the car on August 12th in Charlottesville And nine people died in church in Charlesto...

Courage, redefined The just always die for the unjust The good often stand in for the bad The unjustified suffering of the children Dying in school shootings or while walking in the park The ancient sacrificial virgins The pascal lamb’s blood splashed on the door posts The teenage soldier dying on D-Day Shot in the water and dying on the beach There have always been those individuals Who knelt down and died almost willingly There were Freedom Riders who died in Mississippi Emmett Till died for looking at a white woman the wrong way And Martin died on a Memphis hotel balcony And Malcolm died for what he believed And Trayvon died for wearing a hoodie And Eric Garner died for selling cigarettes And Sandra Bland died in Waller County, Texas Hung in a jail after a bogus traffic stop And countless others died and will continue dying As long as hatred lies in the hearts and minds of men Their white skin is quite misleading When you consider how dark are their thoughts And the content of their...