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My Activism is Waking Up Black Your Acting ism ??? (is hmmmm??¿¿??)

By Melat Published 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago 1 min read
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I’m mad that I have to explain

I’m sad that you woke up late

To the truth of my life

That you think you know well now?

Oh ? Better than me now

So you the bitter me now

Marathon triathlon to the oppression ribbon, aw

Walking walking fast now

You looping me now

Around my

ouch!

You round my pain now

But would u ever come inside

Blow on the scars

As the pain burns out

Black is black in the inside too

White hues still fight on the outskirts of my blues

You like …

colloquialism

Period sis

Black to you is styling isms

Black screens

Art that never made it to your heart

the book that reads you

Reciting my struggles made for a loud life

Progressive minds seem to forget where they were under the hood of rampant thoughts

Keeping score, A for audacious

But

;

My Activism is Waking Up Black

Your Acting ism ??? (is mmmm????)

trying to be Black

No matter the lines

White still cracks

Paled performance

Please Stop the show

Before I stop and show

You,

The role you play

real-life awaits

In the wake of the fake



That’s why, I

burn bridges, to smoke some feelings

Roll one to Fuck their expectations

Role too maybe I can be it

Rolled three, crashed & ashed into my wishes



Of being

Me:without

The pain - black

.excellence

The tear - drip

. perfection

The blood - still red

.sacrifice

slam poetry
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Melat

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