The Poetry of Color

(Sticky Sounz Intro) Welcome, Welcome ladies and gentlemen! Thanks for coming out to the Kit Kat Club We got a special guest for you tonight You won’t be disappointed He’s a good friend of mine…..I.K.P He only has one request – And that is to break out your luminaries Which are your lighters, your cell phones, your flashlights; Whatever gives off light, y’know? Cuz he got a special piece for yall And it’s called “The Poetry of Color” I: You telling them WHITE lies, borne from WHITE lines Now your nose is WHITE-hot, throughout a WHITE night Nuit-blanche; then you dabble in WHITE slavery No WHITEcaps can wash your sins that you commit blatantly From the WHITEstone Bridge you wave the WHITE flag for WHITE hope To save you from the WHITE light of WHITE death; my bright prose – From WHITE labels might sanctify those Doomed from the WHITE light of wicked wickens who jeopardize souls The king of WHITE magic as I WHITE-list Fresh as WHITE waters of God, unmistakenly priceless Donning WHITE gold, rolling on WHITEwalls WHITE grapes and WHITE-ing providing nourishment Cuz I’m hungrier than Great WHITE sharks flourishing The weakness in my WHITE blood cells brings encouragement Sometimes I wish to WHITEwash my mistakes during WHITE Christmases As well as WHITE supremacy from its witnesses The poetry of color… II: Why is it when you see BLACK, you will think “nigger”? Why negative connotations? Who are the destructive agents? Where are the BLACK aristocrats BLACKlisted – BLACKballed and BLACKmailed for trynna bring resistance? Who is it that’s really behind the BLACK marketing? I’ll bring them BLACK awareness through BLACK letters calling armistice Too much BLACK pride, deep BLACK consciousness More flavor than BLACK butter, I didn’t stutter I’m conveying gems more valuable than BLACK gold Unfazed, even when BLACK belts make you act bold I gather BLACK warriors giving them weapons from a BLACKsmith To bring you BLACK death for kicks at the pit – Of despair, then appear at that BLACK tie affair Jacking BLACKS at BLACKjack, sipping on BLACK tea I’m loving it when BLACK harmony brings BLACKS peace Let’s end the BLACK fever and all the past grief Yeah, yeah The poetry of color III: The color of neutrality; grey, brown The color, of life, earth tones abound Visions; not restricted to the grayscale Blind to the color’s mixture, you may fail Flesh; behold the natural spectrum All, races, obvious confession Different perspectives, coalescing Broader, horizons, ranges, dimensions Gray, equals, simplicity The bare minimum; no complexities The power of the mind, far exceeding So is black and white the only angle worth feeding? Gray, brown; Both bring balance One vivid, the other no challenge Hoping your world is not monochromatic Sticking to the binary; break the habit! Kill the static The poetry of color… Outro: Now if this feels good to you tonight Just snap along, and listen up for a second Escape from your minds There’s so much discussion on This and That Better or worse Gay or straight Black or White I just want people to take a second and realize That a lot of the concepts that we talk about They have range; they have spectrums Your skin color’s a prime example of that It’s not about black and white tho So let’s off that And see things for how they really are…ya dig? Credits