Another Litany

This is another litany written years and years ago when I took a sociology course back in my undergrad. days. If this poem sounds aggressive to you, that is because it was written that way....Enjoy!
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Title: Like the thoughts in my mind

Like the serpent in the garden, like the real un-religion, like Cain not Abel, like revelation’s pale horse, galloping like the real Christ

Like casual Christianity…

Like the science of evolutionary earth like, their phylum-kingdom-phyla names, like eugenics, like illusions, delusion, like deceit.

Like slave masters, like kkks, like hitlers, like MLK assassins

Like people are dying

Like there is no God, like blindness, like “free the slaves” but separate and not equal, like the crow of jim cruelty, anti-civil rights, like backlash-backwards like.

Like the society backlashing

Crashing like alcoholism isn’t, like cocaine cracking weed, like lust, like money, like hell, like hell’s hell, like burning. Like hip-hopping-keep-killing guns, like lethal-cold lyrics, like weapons-like nuclear-like mass corruptions

Like nine elevens, not even, not fair…

Copyright. 2010. Moji S.

Acirfa Litany

(Pic: Desert Flower by Joadoor. For your viewing pleasure)
This is the first and one of many poems that I will be posting on here. I wrote it years ago when I saw the movie Hotel Rwanda. The movie made me furious, and it reminded me of the hardships that Africans endured because of Western influence. As an African myself, I couldn't help but to blame the Europeans for the tragedy of Rwanda. But then it dawned on me soon after that at some point I have to stop blaming others for the problems in Africa. Of course this doesn't mean that I ignore the historical context...

This poem called the Acirfa Litany explains it all...enjoy and share your thoughts
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Because “Africa” is spelled
Up
Side
Down.
Because of you.

Because you were there, because we were slaves

Because
we
broke f r e e.
Because of our strength, because of the Son, our sun…shining.


Be-cause: be-lieve, be-ware, be-free, be-lost;
Because we live in schizophrenic worlds

Unstable.

Because of you, because of us;
Because of us, we die.

Copyright. 2010. Moji S.