German Shepherd dogs ?
Next came the water hose?
Bodies lynched, then set ablaze ?
Flesh singed, then meshed with clothes
?Innocent black lives lost, on a blood stained Poplar tree ?
Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words ?
Echo inside me - epigenetically ?"Nigger run, Nigger die, Nigger free"
I am he whose antecedents ?
Suffered and survived the Middle Passage's arduous trip ?
I am the progeny who sprang forth from chained loins
?As human chattel, my ancestors suffered the sting of the whip
Their human dignity and sense of pride
?Was debased, then denied?
Bodies were beat (black and blue) ?
Yet, it was the bruises inside, they tried, but could not hide ?
Innocent black lives lost, victims of the lynching rope?
Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words
?Echo inside me - epigenetically ?"Nigger run, Nigger die, Nigger hope"
I say again, I am he whose antecedents ?
Suffered and survived the Middle Passage's arduous trip ?
I am the progeny who sprang forth from shackled loins?
As human chattel, my ancestors suffered the cabotage of a slave ship
In 1964, we were granted civil rights, but denied civility ?
A denial rooted in the bloom of racial hate ?
The verdant lushness of white supremacy's wicked fertility?
So many innocent black lives lost ?
Because of eugenic's lies and untruths?
Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words
?Echo inside me - epigenetically ?"Nigger run, Nigger die, Nigger choose"
