Learning to love me, Who I Am

No race should have their history erase

Who am I, I am a person with a soul an individual not yet made whole

A secret hidden and untold one thousand years of slavery and ancestral history

Wiped away and concealed from my brother's, I and the world

I am the descendant of slaves your brutality was engraved on many of my ancestral graves

I am the one you call the lost generation, I was meant to be a King in this generation

But our oppressors rearranged and changed our history

In order to keep us in captivity gain wealth and earthly inheritance

Mineral resources, diamond and gold

Yes you heard me,

African leaders and merchants, business men and the western world

Traded my people for diamond, myrrh and gold

Not one of you had considered my ancestral souls

Who am I, I am an individual of awesome colour

I am worth more than diamond and gold there's so much more too me 

In history my ancestors are known for being great their are not just slaves

My people are a unique race they had chosen to conquer adversaries

Face abuse and live to tell the tale

Who am I, I am the boy, the girl you pretend so often not to see

I am the man, woman and child of colour 

Our ancestral bone structure is like no other

We are the nation you all hate

The race you cannot tolerate all because of our colour

Who am I, I am the child of a slave

Who you once and still choose to abuse and use

Suppress and oppress because we are people of colour

Who am I, who are you we are the sons and daughters of the slaves

That were driven out from their Mother land to travel the seas

To be thrown overboard and die of deadly diseases

All because of one man’s greed

Your visions and dreams caused the death of many

Our blood is upon your hands

We like you were created for good but you chose to steal and kill to satisfy your own greed

You ensured we suffered and bleed

Who are we, we are the voices that calls out beyond the graves

The Son's and daughter's who wants to know, Who we are,

Who am I, I am the next generation-the Phoenix rising from the ashes

Awakening from sleep to discover and know, Who I am.