MapQuest

"MapQuest" by Sy Asad

North? South? East? West?

Butterfly flying where he likes has nobody asking him why he don't swim. Under water there's so many kinds yet nobody expects a whale to fly. Can you tell me? Tell me. Can you tell me? Tell me. Can you tell me? Tell me... Tell me where I can go and be black.

Tell me where I can go. Where can I go?

Eagles soar without an uproar, owls don't have to fight for the right to hunt at night. The wind blows anyway it wanna go without a care if it offends the air over there. So can you tell me? Can you tell me? Can you tell me? Where I can go... Tell me where I can go and be black.

Rerouting. Rerouting.

I smile too much or not enough. Don't want to seem too strong but weak it wrong. Seems ok to be " black" if you ain't black. I want to interact but I'll just stay back and stay black.

Rerouting.

See everywhere I go and people look like me, they get treated less than the rest of their community. Steal my culture and my history. Seems they don't want me around unless I make them money like Naomi or dance like James Brown. I really want to know where I can go... and be me.

North? South? East? West?

Where I can go and be free. Where I can sing like I wanna sing. Dance like I wanna dance. Sway like I wanna sway. Prance like I wanna prance. Wear my hair however I wanna and be me...

Where can I go and be black?

Signal lost.

"MapQuest" by Sy Asad