to rainbeaus who've considered suicide when they are enuf

after ntozake shange, kendrick lamar and gavin grimm

all our lives we gots to fight

rainbeaus

all our lives

to use the bathroom

we gots to fight

to drink the water

we gots t' fight

to go to school

not all rubied and bruised

not all covered in phlegm

not all scoured from white wash

that wants to cut our dreads

that wants to take our drums of communication

that wants to erase our ancestors

that wants to circumcise our divinity

we gots t' fight

for a future

of non-gendered language

til we borderless again

naked and free

from political regime

like gawd intended

we gots t' fight

for a future

where they won't steal the blood

of our mothers

and flip it for some profit

where we harness the energy of the moon

causing spiritual boom

so listen now blood

the statue of liberty

is black and full of rage

so high lost her direction

pimp named agent orange

in her ear

with dreams of dominion

it only cost the roost

but once she take that red pill

she put that curanderismo

juba ju-ju on it

an' slay

she gather up primordial goddess n' ankh

an' be in formation AF

she instate the council of 13 grandmothers

she done with purified identity politik

an' waiting on old men to decide our fate

she blow out the torch an' say

all our live we gots t' fight

rainbeaus