I heard your pain scream to me sing to me that she wanted to be free from the social destruction of her name over time her own pain was branched off my own we both learned the melody to the song but she broke off into a sad sickening solo that was like nails on the chalkboard for you were mine but i was powerless as they turned the bed into a house of whores slowly I associated this rape of power with real power and I was confused as I offered you up for little more than empty praise but the rules of the day dictated that there was to be no escape but what was I to do when they drug my manhood off with you sold it for 25, 30 and 40 dollars apiece all I could do from then on was feign sleep for everytime I closed my eyes the image of this opression that I agreed with flashed before my eyes and again I had to rise most nights I would rather have died than to see these Demons flash and destroy my dreams of a real family atmosphere that would never happen as long as I feared the fingers rap tapping at my door asking for entrance but less of a question and more of a demand and this makes me feel like no piece of a man resides inside this heart of mine because I didn't fight for you i just let you be dragged off I just let a piece of my soul go be lost to the memories of eternity because I feared my captor's expression of rage on my back but if I could go back I'd rather take 500 lashes to the skin than to lose your heart again for there is some underlying tension between us that I can see that dates back to that dusty hut I knew that he lusted after your skin but as a man I must say that I no longer deserve the title I lay idle and pretended I didn't know why he was there the only thing that kept the cycle in place was fear but what did I do? I just placed you in a box with harlots even though it was my fault that you were trotted out to perform for those men i hated but could not displace so I just let your self-worth get decimated and myself I grew to express hatred which is why I hate you sista because I hate me too so how could I love you when I allowed such monstrous things to happen to you? additionally I learned that I was not a man because I could not protect my bride so I tucked the definition of a man inside a book I refused to read and such I stumbled thru even suppression of the liberty of you siding with the oppressors because I couldn't possibly be your protector I hated us thru time's sectors because I hated me therefore I hated you too cuz then I couldn't take your open rebuke or your secret love letters adressed to me that I couldn't bear to read because I hated me my former Queen I hate you too why do you think I disown you in every other song I ever wrote I treat you cold because I wasn't man enough to kill in your name so I act out because I am ashamed of the fact that slavery remains
Thursday, December 3, 2009
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