Imagine a world where all people of color are in charge

We will rejoice

Not because one is better than the other

But because we live in a world where the tables can turn and everyone is okay

Where everyone gets a chance to play and sometimes those who have played the longest let someone else have their day

 

Only poetry will save us

Not logic or politic or rhetoric

But beauty, art and music

Because poetry helps you understand

Things you were not meant to understand

 

And when people of color take over

Which is bound to happen now

Let us rejoice

And reunite

It is then equality reigns

Because we will see things turned upside down

And we will be free

Because there is no one held down

In the place where we want them

But they run like a river

Which flows where it wants to be

And they soar like smoke in the sky

Which knows only free

 

And the poetry turns over and over your mind

Till it makes no sense

You can be only free

Of your need to understand,

Which was never a need at all

 

You don’t need to understand or hold or keep someone in their place

You can let go of:

Your position of power

Your understanding

Your need to be right

Your need to have

And give to someone else

Let them understand

Let them be right

Let them have

That is free