Black Fire

Blood
fire
bones
indigenous blood
aboriginal African blood
slave system blood bones mounds
trees swamps rivers plains blood
buffalo cotton sugar cane blood
plantation house african slave huts blood
tears
cries
moans
screams howls even today
ancestors scream moan howl
no justice no peace
nobody wants more than justice
nobody wants less
fires coast to coast
fire blood bones consume the land of the free
home of the brave
medals for Wounded Knee murderers men women children
In the name of Jesus
for the cross
for the crown
for the king and queen
mint julep queen
big house queen
BBC queen
Emmit Til don't look at queen
bow head no whistle queen
bow down
get off sidewalk queen
now minority queen
white man in drag queen

what goes round comes round
who don't know this simple shit
fools smarter than God
Like Job's wife
they say curse God and die
enjoy now
no matter tomorrow
heaven on earth
no pie in sky slavery sermons
white man heaven
black man's hell
cross lynching tree no matter
smarter than God
no mary's baby love
no cross no crown
white christian crown no cross
saved by grace
grace allows racism
white supremacy grace
slave catcher grace
police murder grace
black codes grace
incarceration 13th Amendment
involuntary servitude grace
black fire grace
blood constitution grace
civil rites last rites grace
white man's heaven black man's hell grace
God gave Noah the rainbow sign
no more water
fire next time.
no climate change
world change
can you change
can you change
Mother Nature change
perpetual motion
changing world
change
or die
change
or burn.
change.
black fire.
--Marvin X
8/1/18