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
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
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