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Slapboxin fa memory/
come quilombo!

Mosi Ighzebier

i sat across

from our enemy yesterday.

 

and experienced their enflamed breath manifest in your grammar(s)

An ancestral response, i stepped away. And helped work on your place in the hills

You of so much harm and impunity, my brother.

You of too much acceptance in desolate desires, my sister

Deserve a space amongst us in the hills.

Free to bare nakedness in the coming together of new order(s).

To my siblings and family in struggle, however, you present. Let rhythms of grandguiders hum.

"This mmooovement willl heal youu." Too.

Let footsteps on this earth, puncture withered armors of our enemies. Planted steps drumming "What we have always known..known..known"

Should mothers' descendants acquire all memory/

                      ​\And stretch her hands

Remnants of your exhaust could never asphyxiate.

Our spaces in ruin, wail for our own bias. So yes, i left you in that moment and left the sadism.

 

Only to return with your train ticket to the hills.

Maybe i am not a revolutionary/should i go​

yet/in my time

Inclined to write of that True half of life,

i

garnered all of the unmanifested salt of mine imaginary

The water flows. still. Losing its perfect memory.

 

Soaked by jagged steel corrupting and corroborating this pain and the

despair. Life's True Half.

Until a star of change hit, illuminating. i must be a revolutionary. There are

no alternatives for ini.

The people of the sun.

RAHHHH, wailing. As we thrust the life force of our imaginary upon the (dark

spirit) warriors of mourn and to-mourn.

To Imani, our born-unborn: Child, should i go before life–this iteration–grants your

beauty to its companions. Be still in that we battled fiercely that first step of the

revolution.

The corrupted individual: those cursed elements of spirit due for purge.

Change! Before implosion. Before the inward consumption of thought. Vacuums

Vacuums.

Selah.

Mosi Ighzebier

I was raised in Fort Worth, Texas amongst adults who stressed the importance of learning, because of this I am a senior in Africana Studies at Howard University with a minor in Computer Science. I plan to attend a Graduate program in Africana Studies and be a teacher for African students wherever and however we manifest. 

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