Why Must I Believe In God

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death…
From the jungle green shores of mother Africa’s beautiful past,
And upon the froth tipped waves of the cold and dangerous sea,
Finally marched through malaria poisoned swamps off the Carolina shore!

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death…
Through the times of warrior respect upon the great Africans plains,
To the northern deserts of Ra, Nut, Osiris, Thoth, Anubis, Bastet…
And through the embracing of Anglo-Christian religious caveats!

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death…
Tho the gods of their fathers were killed through the slavery process,
Tho their beliefs were beaten, burned and raped away from their minds,
Tho terror and horror were the instruments of forced religious abdication!

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death…
While calling upon a god who never knew them in savage times…
While calling on a god forced upon them by men of the opposite color…
While begging for forgiveness from a god, from a land, they never knew!

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death…
From Christianity forced with black death by inquisition!
From Christianity forced by robed warriors of horses and swords!
From Christianity forced by men of languages who call upon death!

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death…
By the hands of emissaries of a silent god of Sadness!
By the hands of emissaries of a silent god of Madness!
By the hands of emissaries of a silent god of death!

My ancestors have seen sadness, madness and death...
While forgetting mother Africa's gods and Goddesses.
While forgetting... they have embraced the god of their oppressors!
While forgetting... they stole you from your mother land in the name of their God!


RLJ

Early Thoughts

An African-American man awoke one cold winter morn,
His mind slowly erasing the dark fog of sleep outworn.
A sudden bit of clarity came to his mind,
He was instantly depressed, his mind in a bind...
What has he not done in the 50 years of his life not yet torn?

He has matured into a man from a source of racial strife.
His existence has been a series of attempts at a better life.
He has fought back the anger of his southern oppression,
He has come to terms with the need for constructive repression...
And he has come to terms with the need to not be a lowlife.

He can't continue to live in anger over the racism of the past.
He can't continue to walk through his life as a social outcast.
He's never really hated white people...
He's never wished any harm to those hostile!
The time is now for him to man up and remove the mental past.

He turned in his bed and looked at his clock.
Thirty more minutes until time to get up and be the rock.
Today would be a good day,
Lots of fun life and easy play.
To make sure this happened... leave his computer in its dock!


RLJ



 

What Be Thine Breaking Point, Women?

A man kills a woman somewhere in the world today.
What matters, the means, by which he does what he may!
He killed a woman, the life giving center of the universe...
By what rip in the fabric of reason is the impetus for this curse?

Nature placed within women the desire to, generally, seek men to date...
To be drawn toward certain men, whom with, they might mate.
Thank the universe's grand plan for continuation of the species...
Because, unbelievably, why do women put up with men's twisted miseases?

Men's aggression's, their obsessions and their regressions...
Why would a woman want to make a man one of her possessions?
Men are war-like beasts of burden, misunderstood creatures of delusion...
And even their own parents cannot come to a right conclusion!

The medical professions of this world we all live on today...
It needs to gather together and decide to fix men's need to flay!
Guns and war and violence and rape and torture and bombs and gore...
How much more destruction can man bring to an earth crying, "No more!"

And the women... oh my, the women of this broken planet of suicide!
When will they finally decide enough is enough of the female genocide!
Let me live long enough to see human kind rise up from derision deep...
Before women start slicing men's throats in the middle of their sleep!

RLJ