6.22.22 Poem

Black boy

loud and proud

i see what it took for you to get here

i didn't always understand

now you help me to

its starting to make sense

sometimes i feel myself around the corner

edges blurred out

as if in a dream

i come back to you

every night

with your hand in mine

my body a cradle for yours

ambition, vision, passions

carve me out from a hill

I've always been whole

always will be

watch our whole cover a planet

remind it where it came from

rock it back to sleep

be a cradle for its rebirthing place

Black boy loud and proud

i see you clearer now

look how far you've come in our lifetime together

look how far we've yet to go

shit we've yet to let go

and yet we

grow

together