My Muse Is A Worldly TravelerA Poem by Jerome F Knox III pseudonym Nefarious J. DorseyFreeverse Epic?
My muse is worldly
Traveler Whose passport Has been stamped Many times From journeys In my mind Along with Jailhouse tats Hidden on the back Of my soul My tramp stamp Hidden Beneath my dreadlocks Reminders of where I was forced to stop my Rumps through The Sahara Saragheti No one expected Me To survive I am alive Even the Fallout from Nagasaki never Stopped me Glows from radiation Barely contaminated My situation My muse Survived Holocaustic Showers As the quest for power Caused bombs to Drop every hour These times Weren't so aMusing Mirroring the time I had to hide From apartheid Cause a shine like mine Is like a blood diamond A rare find in the mind The Trans Atlantic voyage On the open sea opened me Cause openly I didn't see Cause I was blinded by slavery On the auction block my long Flowing dreadlocks were chopped Named changed to something -son Others experienced that too; As the violation grew my muse never knew That these lies were ever true So I found the tracks underground As conductors led me north As my muse went back and forth Cause freedom could not be Contained in chains as liberty Had to be maintained 3/5 fractionalization Tested Free Speech in the nation As inequality needed erasing Cause equality was worth chasing As you look at more stamps In my book From France I took the chance Forsaking romance for revolution Cause the solution Had to come by any means In order to keep the dream alive My muse their muse all had To survive that means being used And abused by bringing light To the issues So it seems the untold dreams Of Velma and Thelma from Selma Died on the side of the road at The hands of the KKK Refusing to give up their rights away Even today my muse is yearning That Watts and Ferguson are burning The pages of history as the quest For equality never rest it is a test That stresses my muse everyday As it finds a away to write and Be the light that shines brought for all the
World to see a beacon of hope for All humanity © 2015 Jerome F Knox III pseudonym Nefarious J. Dorsey |
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Added on January 27, 2015 Last Updated on January 27, 2015 AuthorJerome F Knox III pseudonym Nefarious J. DorseyPolitically InCorrect, LAAboutI have been writing since I was 9. I specialize in freeverse poetry and have cut my teeth on Political and Socially Conscious subject matters. My poetry is not for everyone but anyone who hungers and .. more..Writing
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