And the chains of Amistad couldn't hold us!

I love Whitney Houston! I'm sad that I liked her music while she was alive, but I never took the time to appreciate her words. "Your Love is My Love" a beautiful song, but it took her dying for me to actually pay attention to what she was saying. Her line "and the chains of Amistad couldn't hold us" how inspiring is that? For those who don't know what the Amistad or "la Amistad" is, I suggest you google it or watch the movie "Amistad". Lol

Anyway, once enslaved we as a people are still maintaining and archiving in 2012. My poem below demonstrates how mentally altering being beat down, we allow ourselves to be "captured" or "enslaved" . Be encouraged! Not only have my ancestors overcome, but my God overcame the world so we can all be free! Be blessed thanks for stoping by. Please comment or leave any suggestions that you may have. I would love to hear/ read your feedback. Thanks. ~Taye

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So we have fallen

But can we not get up

World got me believing I’m stuck

But I gotta look up

Sight hazy from “life’s pollen”

Looked lovely like a Daffodil

Lured by the sight & got stung by a Bee

Wasn’t expecting to feel such pain

Tried to hold it in, but that can drive you insane

They say every man sent to war

Comes back with some signs of it

Well I must be dirty, broken and fucked up

Many battle wounds

But I’m amongst a few

That declined life’s grave

Still standing

Demanding that I be released

From my chains

Yes I have fallen

But I have looked up

My chains were used to make me stand

Then broken on command as he said

“it is done”