And though I like you

My Political Point Of View

Is not based on pleasing you

The sunlight meets the moonlight
and
a lifetime in-between
is ours to share
All the stories ever told
The love unspoken
The promises made
and broken
The burdensome price
we pay
And still
The Gods have given us
but this single day
Let us find within ourselves
our great warrior
Let us prepare
the greatest of feast
Celebrating
triumphantly
this miracle call life
upon which
we have its only lease

Be you
Mother
Father
Husband
Or
Wife
Be you the children
of Gods
or
the descendants of
Immortal strife
We still have today
Time to step up
Roll out
Make this day
pay

I’ve been alive for longer
than many would have expected
Heavens knows I’ve even
been alive longer than I in my earlier days
could have expected
There was a time
when I was 100 percent certain
that by this time
I would have long died
I even saw, in my vision
the method of my execution
But here we are
And for this very reason
I am so opposed to that greeting
“Hello White People”
Knowing that from date of birth
to this day of life
I am sickened by the endless
headlines of…..

“It is a 1st for
It is an amazing accomplishment
It is so very wonderful to see
It is, today making history”

As if my Blackness was some new form
of aeolian awareness
while my existence was in fact alien
my birth, having just happen
dropping in without prior notification
in the midst of your
societal convocation
And despite your attempts
at whitening my history
with the futility of you comparing me
to standards
baby in time
unborn of a kind
when truth be told
I am ten times
your lifetime
old
I am a direct descendant of the ancestors
that build the pool
from which you learned the word
genepool
I am from the soul that your Gods
came to
when learning about what Cane took
And Adam knew nothing of Eve
until long after your Gods
were invited to leave

And thus
The sunlight meets the moonlight
and
a lifetime in-between
is ours to share
I remain opposed to that greeting
“Hello White People”
If only for the reason
It wrongly makes you feel
you were born under an alien dew
when in fact you are but a tributary
in the vastness of my ancestral rainy season

@Anthony2023mdh30Vibes