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by Leroy Moore Jr./Po' Poets Project
Here I stand!
but I'm not Paul Robeson
surrounded by Brown Broken Bodies
Brutality & Bullets paints Blue on Brown skin
Bruises oozing
Brothers canít run anymore
Bones snap by the swing of Batons
Four wheels equals wheelchairs
Brown Broken Bodies are one thing
but Brown Broken souls are deadly
No rehabilitation
now he is weak physically and mentally
Manhood has disappeared
Heads hang down low
He is still young
but he feels & looks old
Here I stand!
holding Brown Broken Bodies on my Back
while Broken souls fills up my heart
giving me a heart attack
Wheelchairs, crutches, canes and schizophrenic minds
ex soldiers now are ex residents
living on the outskirts of their communities
Picking up faces from the ground
but for what!
to see more oppression
to hear racist comments
to feel systemic blows
to stare down the burl of a gun held by a black & blue uniform
to beg for spare charge
Mother nature looks better than manís society
Here I stand!
with books entitled
Why We Canít Wait & Here I Stand
but even on MLKís and Malcolm Xís B. day
Brown Bodies are being abused
Going back in time so where is Harriet Tubman
cause weíve dug up Masta and now heís in the White House again
Both George Washington & George Bush are a lot in common
Finishing the King Alfred Plan
James Byrdís Broken Body didnít create domestic war
But Broken Bodies in New York and Washington are being used
to send more bodies into battle
creating more Broken Bodies and minds
Here I stand!
shouting on an isolated island
sending out an S.O.S. to the motherland
Marcus Garvey I want to go home
A disabled world nation
and Iím their spokesman
but the world wonít give a mike
so I write with my brotherís blood
They speak to me when it is quite at night
My book is a flood
of their wants, needs, anger and talents
Brown Broken Bodies might be scattered all over the world
but their thought patterns are unified
for a seamiest to sew together
creating a warm blanket, cradling and nursing newborns
and covering cold Brown Broken Bodies
Leroy F. Moore Jr.
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