Black is Not One Color

Felt like rhyme

Black is not one color

but all of them in one

Black is not a face or a person

baller nor bum

it is the period when this sentence is done.

Maybe black is the ooze 

that drowns sea and fish

or is it that nappy young'un

all hungry with wish

Black is certain as black is your eye

when you're fighting just to prove your right

(or keep one's rights alive)

Oh yes, black is what makes the stars shine bright

while under it--knocking boots aside...

no matter what, love is made even 

in the darkest of nights...

So why would somebody 

as golden as me

care about one crayon 

or a stripe of a bee?

Because if nothing is wrong

then our skin shouldn't be

or worse --whipped til it bleed

There is nothing more to say, 

let each embrace teach you

Question all history, but now just do you

as long as eyes can take a look

know your neighbor, love that crook

experience and love is not from a book.

Now I'll sit next to you 

since we ride the same bus,

do you get to know my color

or speak to living dust?

Black may be just a word

that fear blinds from our trust

Still all the colors in one

black is beauty under the sun, 

til time is rust, til gone is done...

So speak truly and be free

Love the same as all of us

Cherish blues and greenest trees

Since we do ride that same ole bus...

No words need screams or fistful hate

Cuz Black is moonwalking

up to the Pearly Gates,

where the boogie cannot wait

and the blind finally wake...