True Nature

Spoken word commentary on Colson Whitehead’s, the Underground Railroad, by Leroy E. Mann

We The People!!

In order to form a more ‘civilized’ union

Will remove the noose from our necks,

And take the necessary steps toward our hopes.

No longer will our place in this sinister space

Be tethered to the ends of white supremacy’s ropes.

Tell me,

Why is it that slaves and slave masters can share the

Same heaven, in death?

Yet our earthly existence is filled with hate, fear,

And lust of the opposite shade…

The old declaration must fade, because

We the People are not the common defense,

We are defenseless against a white man’s

Licentious advances.

Even with the documents of manumission

Our general welfare ‘hangs’ on the discretion,

Or brutal urges of the witless patroller.

Prosperity? … Only if we agree

To be shipped and fixed… As if

We don’t have the scruples to control over sexual nature.

The nature that knows the sting

But never the softness of cotton…

The nature that provides breast milk

When the Missus has none to provide…

That same nature that sees high – Praying to be

More than three fifths, while the massa’s view

Is essentially killing you, and

Eventually making you his equal.

We the People

Anticipate evolution not the sequel

Of fighting amongst ourselves to impress our oppressors.

We must take off the blinders and face the truth

Of the sexual, racial and economical abuse

That will plague our future generations,

Who will kill for sneakers.

Drowning out their history of foreign tongues

By blasting Alpine speakers

I, would rather be defeated and die,

Than act against my own Nature.

Think of your words…

Are they no more than a parlor trick?

Do they possess substance founded on your principles?

Or, are they simply a blind recitation

Of the next man’s declaration?

We the People

MannofStat

Copyright © 2017 by Leroy Elwood Mann