My back is strained
Forced for centuries to carry your wealth
My feet hurt
Walking endless miles barefoot on jagged rocks and hot sand.
My hands are bruised and callused
Building your mansions and farming your fields.
My mouth is dry
Save the sweat pouring from my face.
My eyes are puffed
Crying as I step over my murdered brothers.
My neck is stiff
Hung too many times
My legs are bruised
For all the times you forced my sisters' legs open.
A mere cut on my body keloids
Still traumatized from endless lashes of your whips
My eyes are deep black
The horrors we've seen have stained them forever
But my blood is rich red
Holding the spilled blood of all the Kings you killed
You stole our crowns
So we wear Afros to remind our sons where we came from.
We walk tall
because you stole our sisters' pride, so we step for two.
We run faster
Because you chopped our feet and shackled our dreams
We sing louder
because for centuries we were silenced
We laugh harder
So our laughter can echo to our forefather's graves who knew nothing but pain and make them smile
You killed us
but we have reborn and we will continue to be reborn until we restore our rightful place.
Your swords, guns ropes and bombs can only take our flesh
You will never take our birthright
Time will see us restored
Time will see your demise
And our great-grandchildren will laugh for us while we smile in our graves holding the hands of our ancestors.
Like a horse ridden by a demon in a hot desert until it falls and dies of heat and fatigue
Like an eagle that flew so high and so fast it forgot where it came from
Like a gas tank so empty it hisses when you open it
I've gone so fast, so high and so far, I can't tell if I'm still moving
Too scared to look left, too scared to look right, terrified to look behind.
Fast is all I know to go, doesn't matter where, just not here.
Slowing down makes me feel the pain, slowing down makes me remember.
I can't slow down, I can't feel the pain, it hurts too much.
Stopping would kill me, stopping would mean facing it, facing it all.
I just need to go, I just need to run, I just need to fly.
They all want me to give a part of me they would never give.
They all say I owe them, what about what they did to me?
They used me, they use who I was, now I owe them?
If they can't find me then they can't use me, ever, again.
This one-way flight is to save me, from them.
I feel safe in this nowhere, yes, nowhere is now my home, because nowhere doesn't exist.
They won't find me, they won't use me, ever again
I have taken a flight that has no destination and I'm urgently rushing.
My pain is my fuel and it has no end, so I will race faster and faster, forever.
Faster is how I feel alive, faster is how the pain goes away, faster is how I lock them away.
God of speed hear me, let Anubis find me not, poison his search, spare my fate.
My heart will not be weighed, my life will not be written, by them.
No more, like the dead horse, no more like the gas tank, forget me, like the eagle
I comfort my escape, I beg to evaporate these memories, let me blaze my anger
Let me run, let me fly for you could not manage my wrath if you grab my wrist.
