The Prophets
Bob Marley demanded, “Open your eyes, look within.
Are you satisfied with the life you’re living”
Marcus Garvey directed, “Look to the East for the crowning of a Black King”
Malcolm X said “By any means necessary” when he took to being a Muslim
“I have a dream”, the words of the nonviolent protester Martin Luther King
Henry Highland Garnet supported violent revolution
The Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman’s solution
Nat Turner instigated a rebellion
Denmark Vessey attempted one
Jesus sacrificed on the cross three days
With ten plagues Moses blazed
With horns and trumpets Joshua had them dazed
With physical prowess Samson had them amazed
Wailing on Zion gates, millions unsheltered from the Hades,
the mortared of misconstrued philosophies
The overarching fantasies of miscreants with egomaniacal pursuits fall upon tribes
The intractable Spirit takes on God-like significance
before the sacrilegious pillaring themselves on wry interpretations of Truth
The hapless innocence of existence victimized by this deviation of psyche,
saddened by its vampire-like transformation
Reason eludes their fangs
It is not explanation they want; it is Justice
They call with the bellowing of innumerable calves,
fiercely numbing the Highest Presence to attention
Wounds inflicted so deep, they can only be healed by revenge
And the stitching of time and self-love
The placid realm interrupted; this is too grave an issue, response is warranted
Fallow ground breaks upon Word, virgin womb inseminated by Wisdom, Truth wraps in flesh
A lion amongst men, sutured with their problems, condemned by them
With the self-realization of the ordained, a destiny written in the Book of Life,
He rises unseemingly, a mere man ‘till he elevates,
energizing a movement as the gathering winds in a hurricane, which
After it has passed, the damage done,
Positive change secured,
Witnesses reflect with fond memory at the signs, but confess they never knew
A prophet is never without honor, except in his own country and amongst his own people
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