No Matter Where You Go

Once upon a time in the outer reaches Where clear black nights Met white hot beaches The destroyers came to shore And were speechless By mysterious peoples With Sunburnt features Among them Healers and even teachers Who knew of God before they even heard of Jesus It was fate that they would cross paths Neither side would come out the same in the aftermath OFF TO THE NEW WORLD Thru the door of no return Broke our mind, body, spirit With very little concern I guess over time we learned how to adapt Make a brand new second hand Ut of these old scraps And now we influenced the whole planet I wear it like a suit of armor My melanin activates to bring me good karma Sow my seeds Multiply like a good farmer Inside of every Trayvon or Obama Lies the potential to be great or die trying The odds are stacked Ain't no point In me Being a shy lion Walk with a certain pride We move by a code And go for what we know- More like what we're owed To make up for the lies That media tells Like being Black is hell Death, crime, and jail Are the only outcomes With few exceptions We're here to change course In a new direction Using talents To provide balance Advance thru the corporate to make Em forfeit Or Give Em fatigue In the Ivy League Then watch Em all fall short On the ball court Never forget who you are Or what we been thru How what we did Dont compare to what we're meant to And the best is yet to come So it's essential That we wake up Before we get that wake up call We don't all have to agree But we all have to be committed to a degree To do for you The same as I would do for me If we can do that We'll finally get to see What we been fighting for -this wholetime- to get free Often imitated Never duplicated Always underestimated Cash money generated Feared, loved, hated Especially the highly educated And the ones from the bottom they thought Never woulda made it Wish we never tolerated Being so degraded Lands invaded Tombs, oil and gold mines raided Incarcerated socially castrated Separated at birth From the very root that Gave it Still feel the pain We self medicated Stay faded From The projects to communities that's gated I won't over complicate it Ill simply state it Look - the world is in trouble And We gonna be the ones to save it