Getting off my novacaine
having survived this poison food
Never forced fed it
I soon not forget
Was always free to.reject
it . Like Adam choose the forbidden
tree
I chose not to be free
So accustom to this slavery
it's become normalcy
Never having really discovered me
Who am I outside of this history
of Black men lacking identity
Am I American or displaced African
Am I a Cotton patch negro
Or Black man who knows
his true place in the modern world
his self hood my vision not curtailed.
Unraveled by father time
On mother earth's family tree I climb
Towards a self where novacaine
Was just the relief of pain
Not a recipe for disaster
Like 2 colliding trains
Or a wayward plane
Like my name.I claim
Anglo Saxon English caption
Captured, tortured, Conjured
Culturd,Killed, Coddled, Eaten swallowed by America, by Amerikkka,
By Ameri- can! By the sword &the land.
Dare I take my onward march
Onto the new shall I embark
Away from novacaine Jane
Onward to where a new freedom rings
Detached from my colonized brain
Unattached from the Timothy Williams
Shame!
Ever linked to a history given me by a English name.
© Timo5272