vision one: a black futur-ial pictorial
picture she black she bring steel spine like winnie cries but they couldn’t break her spirit w/vicious lies picture she black she bring love And power like Cleopatra but scorn her and there’ll be War coming atcha she bring victory and muscle like Nzingha queen what stands short can haunt your dreams fierce and make you scream she bring thought like assata- it aint free but if things was right they oughta be picture she black picture she black reborn warn torn free form picture she black picture she you picture she me picture she future today she sits one visible brick on an invisible foundation hidden criss crosses of connections bringing like minds together across space-time continuums we exist in the now scribing a foundation dancing as one movement one mind building one nation building fires for others to seek smiling into the future of a realigned redignified redefined society across man-made divisions and lines… across time… picture she black she stand tall with a poem in her fist she seem to stand tall even when she sit she sing subtle sob songs of pain in face of oppressors smiling softly to hide the seething smiling an undecipherable liberation into our hearts across time picture she black she crouch on invisible subway she skin so dry it crack she takes them to the line aint even no looking back even if they scared or shy she say ‘you can be free now and die, or you can be free