A TO Z SUMMATION OF OUR SITUATION
Assimilation yet such widespread segregation
Beautification around city slum deterioration
Concentration of blacks in the prison plantation
Discrimination cause boycott and mass demonstration
Extermination of all the possible "terrorist" nations?
Fragmentations of our people in their personal relations
Generation gaps, perplexed ask for an explanation
Humilation and fear throughout the airport station
Integration of our richest, for the poorest - segregation
Justification for a war in the midst of mass starvation?
Kwanzaa-education, seven principles for our elevation
Litigation for injustices, and the over-due compensation
Modernization and technology in the African nation
Naturalization of self or stop all the proliferation?
Obligation to a hypocritical, double standard nation
Publication of race confrontation in higher education:
Qualification or just an exaggeration of grade inflation?
Reparations demands - for our past and present situation
Salvation-religion, a way to our people's elevation
Temptation for us to go with the flow of the nation
Unification of race and family to help the situation
Verification and DNA testing for the false accusation
Westernization, infiltration changing other civilization
eXpectation to improve our own complex unique situation
Young-generation music rappers, black female "sexploitation"
Zulu-relation? Torn apart, slavery still haunts the nation
(Copyright © Delores Chamblin January 2002)
LOOKING BACK .....
Oftentimes I stayed
in the shade of the
trees all day.
But today I danced
and pranced
along the moist cool bay,
watching butterflies and bees
swarming around trees ...
young tropical trees
that were swaying
and playing
along with the breeze.
I sat near a mass
of withered grass
and delicate little flowers,
thinking of nothing at all,
just watching leaves fall,
descending in little showers.
As the evening neared
and I feared
the mysteriously tranquil dark,
I quickly got up and began
to skip then ran
home, forgetting about my lark.
When I reached my shack
the same black
of the night was everywhere.
So I went straight ahead
into my bed,
not looking back on my fear.
(Copyright © 1973 Delores Duncan Chamblin)
WEB OF CONFUSION
As time drifts away into a web of allusion
Voices emerge into a mind with conclusion
While messengers and chatters are out of fusion
Real faces struggle through the masks of illusion
And enter the net tangled in conflicting delusion
Adding FYI to the wide world of confusion
(Copyright ©2004 Delores Chamblin)
LOST SAILOR
A sailor searched the sea
To see which way it led
He followed the current
For he couldn't see ahead
When the moving current
Very swiftly went by
The sailor raised his head
And looked out for the sky
He searched for the rainbow
Through the gray foggy day
And continued to move on
Though he couldn't see the way
(Copyright ©1980 Delores Chamblin)
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