Joined: 24 Mar 2005
Posts: 2
Location: Nashville, TN
Revolutionary Challenge
Hey what's up. First I'd like to say I'm happy to be here and amongst women writers. I thought I would start my introduction with a bang. I hope you ladies enjoy.
Peace and Blessings
Giovanni
Revolutionary Challenge
TAKE ME ON!
Is what I screamed to the world
when tattooed tears stained me in war paint
They told me I was a hopeless dreamer
They told me that because of my genealogy
I was destined for a life of
crack pipes
and babies
living in roach box projects
with little education
and death would come for me with either gunshots or aids
and they told me what fate they had saw in me
when they looked at my hair
looked at my environment
then looked in my eyes
and told me "Nobody ever rises from these condition"
And I looked back at them
with fires that made infernos seem subzero
spitting in their faces the poisons which they tried to feed me
the pack of lies they tried to brainwash in me
and I refused
because my heritage shouted for me to Fight!
To Fight my way
To Fight the chain which tried to shackle me an invisible overseer
Fight Til Fighting was my heart
My Life
My soul
and became Me
They didn't know back then
That the very same genealogy
That was supposed to register as destitutional in their fated eyes
Was the same genealogy that made me defy
Defy whatever it was that stood between ME and destiny
For she is the woman I love the most
And I would gladly Die
Than to Live a Lie
My dreams are radical
And my ways are 'alien'
Only because I choose to stop along the path they carved for me
Take my Machete'
And cut anew a path which calls to me
The same pack of lies they tried to feed me
They fed to control not just one race
But all races
Under a 'united' flag
That was supposed to accept me as human
Not as a pervert
Not as a destitute
Not as a victim
But as a survivor
A conqueror
A lover of a woman
...because I rejected, they tried to call me crazy
They said that Normalcy lies with a man between your legs
Pumping and ravaging at you like dogs do in heat
And when his pleasure it met, yours was to be neglected....
That isn't love
Just senseless degradation of my humanity and womanhood
So I defied
I defied to live out who I am
Not under a flag of what I am thought to be
Because I AM Human
I am a woman
I am anything I put my mind to
Just you wait I say
If you can handle the fiyah I bring with my rolling thunder
I am unbreakable in spirit
I am unmatched in my will to find destiny and wed her
I am strong emotionally
Closer to any deity that you can ever fabricate
Mine is of higher
Yours is of dollah
Which one do YOU think will win in the end?
Hah, I laughed when they told me what I could and could not be
When they tried to tell me what I was supposed to be
But they knew little of who I am
So I looked them in their eyes with fires that would have incinerated the masses
and said
If you doubt in me
If you think I am not who I say I am
If you think you can win what destiny always calls me to be
Then
TAKE ME ON! _________________ I never had a choise who I feel in love with, I just fell and never bothered to get back up when I did
Thu Mar 24, 2005 8:32 pm
wyldhart
Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 1216
Gio-
Powerfully felt! Excellent write.
hugs
wyld _________________ "wyld in the darkest places of your mind"
Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:56 pm
Linda Bray
Joined: 22 Aug 2004
Posts: 4052
Giovanni,
Very intense!!! Thanks for sharing and welcome to Mels!! Take good care!!
Peace,
Linda _________________ a poets heart is never empty....
Linda Bray
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