Half My Life

More than half my life

When I stopped feeling white
From realising I was painted as white

More than half my life

My role models have been blacker than
The blackboards of my colonised curriculum
Stolen idols were ridiculed, until passed as white

More than half my life

Since Hip Hop’s beat infiltrated my heartbeat
Initiated my heart from hard streets, reinvigorated my heart

More than half my life

Inspired by the struggles of slaves freed
Who unselfishly shared their wisdom
On pages they’d orally speak in sound waves
I realised I was born to seek

More than half my life... And the best of it

More than half my life... And for the rest of it

Influenced from afrocentric philosophers in a relentless
Current in a race against time, in a race against race pride
The construct of space time could have effortlessly swept

More than half my life

From now on, I side with the oppressed
Privilege, what I afford to possess
Until death, torture arrest –

If it’s for the cause, you can have my life
Behind or on bars rhymed; You can have my life ...

More than half my life