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A poem of Solidarity
For my brothers and my sisters
Of the R E D
Same way BLM
Got y’all marching with me
Gotta shed a little love
Spot a little of light
BLM be on my left
And I got RED on my right
Ballin’ up both fists
We be on the resist
Sick and tired be shit on
Now we taking a piss
Mobilizing online
Gonna march in the streets
We get met with opposition
Clock us takin’ the beats
It’s the same old story
That you tired of hearing
It’s the same old glory
That we tired of fearing
So we challenge those who never live
With something to lose
If you’re gonna walk a mile with us
Then take off your shoes
Predictably some people wanna play the blame game
Privatizing privilege
Perpetuating poor
Forego a light stroll down Memory Lane
Let me simply take you all on a Starlight Tour
Sixties scooping
Seventies slaughter
Aching eighties
Nineties Nada
Damn thing changed
We past 2000
Lack of Health Care
Last of Housing
Sift through semantics
Talk etymology
Sometimes subtly
Suppressing the psychology
Displaced
Now Found
On the reservation
Understand the word
Means state of limitation
Paying much attention to sensational drama
Speaking not of Intergenerational Trauma
Looking for injustice
It’s right here at home
Down with Apartheid
It’s based in our own
First things first now
Understand treaty
Doesn’t mean surrender
Doesn’t mean needy
All are us of Stewarts
And not just some
With the needs that are greater
Than the few or the one
Copyright © 2021
Wakefield Brewster
aka: DaLyrical Pitbull
Professional Poet & Spoken Word Artist
Professional Poetic Interpreter™️