I haven't forgotten <br />even though you have <br /> <br />the hardships of many, <br /> your mind they've crafted <br /> <br />the wound unhealed, in the pocket bag <br />the deal was sealed <br /> <br />you're using relaxers and dye <br />ain't nothing differnt from you and I <br /> <br />work odd hours, called us all kinds of names <br />callin MY NATION cowards? <br /> <br />who do you think did it? <br />you know them egyptian towers <br /> <br />you can go and swevel round in your chair <br />back and forth, while stomping me down to the floor <br /> <br />but while you're doing that <br />remember where you came from <br /> <br />even way then before we were <br />here before they found us <br /> <br />tsk tsk tsk, you believe all they say is true? <br />well how easily are you fooled <br /> <br />Ever heard of Tanzania? they would <br />of left us on that nile river, see ya <br /> <br />we fought the current <br />they made it to the continet <br /> <br />came about race was formed <br />had the people torned <br /> <br />divided us from skin and hair <br /> <br />Was this some kind of hype <br />where we just sterotype <br /> <br />treated us wore than the chickens in the pen <br />looking at us they claimed created them to sin <br /> <br />thinking back makes me sick <br />that we are the same ethnic <br /> <br />a toc and a tic <br />they played with your mind <br /> <br />look into it all, hx has an orgin <br />though the place was foreign <br /> <br />not the land down under <br />but in the desert where the water slumbered <br /> <br />archologial eveidence don't lie <br />where did you get your clues where did they hide? <br /> <br />we all came from adams same side <br />and YOU that divided us <br />can never corrupt my mind! <br /> <br />**1st time writer please comment**<br /><br />Sophonie Asia Joseph<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/have-you-forgotten-your-strengh/
