Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is the black man’s social condition

In a society where he is constantly put at odds with his intuition

Hearing the voices of Kings Warriors and struggle

Moores, Ethiops and Kemetic brothers

Whispering the greatness of his lineage into his backbone

He stands erect unwilling to bow down

Throned in the reality that only exists in his heart and head

Dichotomous with the food for thought fed by a society that can’t hear the years of royalty in his bloodline

Over the shuffling sounds of hate in the redistribution of genealogical lines

He is a shadow that sits in the silent vertex of distant corners

Praying that boring eyes can’t read brain waves

Paranoid that someone might brand him revolutionary and assassinate his brave into the conclaves of the insubordinate

Important to name his theories conspiracies to keep the world from believing in his truth

But brother the world is trying to attack you!  Been coming at you, trying to harm you while telling you your mental is out of order

Claiming that your very being is disorder

And for these reasons no one believes in your abilities to bring home that bacon

Making children of our men and mamas keep ‘em crib laden

Likely to wholly take in your prescribe position

Function with the symptoms

A lifetime as victim

Some tokened in success or push pass their “problem” to make racial progress

But I am certain

Schizophrenia is the black mans social condition.

©Brion Gill 2013