Mr. Africa Poetry Lounge!
Soul Sisters
Answers given
on our ancestors risen.
Resurrected.
Spoken lyrics
on the spirits of ancestors
to Black Panthers.
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth.
Learning the burning truth about Angela Davis or
Assata Shakur.
Kathleen Cleaver.
Controlled whispers
for my soul sisters
who held things down for US brothers
because they loved US.
Called nigger,
niggress,
nigga,
or niggette
yet were Nubianesque queens.
Treated US brothers like kings.
Fed US our freedom
as they led US to freedom.
Stood right by our side and cried as Panthers partied.
'Til questions ended and answers started.
Our ancestors
were sisters who blessed US.
For the pathways paved,
homage is paid
for those that birthed
and nursed
and mothered the revolution.
Written by Kommon Knowledge
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