RENEE’
DRUMMOND-BROWN
THE CHOICE IS UP TO YOU?
“When you hear about slavery for
400 years…For 400 years? That sounds like a choice” (Kanye West). “NO IT DON’T;
IT SOUNDS LIKE SIN” (Renee Drummond-Brown).
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
designer irons used for our neck,
minds’, hands, and our feet;
anchor ring, ankle rack, belly
chains, bending fiber, blindfolds and body chains.
Think I’ll go with the anchor ring?
SWEET!
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose which Atlantic
Slave Trans we’d ride
when sailing the soft raging seas;
La Amistad’ or Lord Ligonier
(either-one, don’t matter) would certainly be
suitable for my ancestors
and me!
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose to leave WEST
Africa in 1619,
an’ settle in Virginia’s
extravagant
HGTV’s plantation colonies.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
those wonderful auction blocks to
be sold away from
our natural families.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
stunning surnames and become “made
in the USA’s” private property.
Brown suits my family’s name just
fine (by me).
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
gods’
which stripped us away from our
spirituality
and separate us from the true God
of Israel
who was meant to be.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
losing our unusable mother tongue;
to speak Ebonics so eloquently.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
being handsomely raped
EVER so “freely.”
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
picking snuggly-cotton sun-up to
sun-down;
wage-free.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
straightening combs, jheri curls,
weaves and perms
I’ll stick to B.D.’s invented
braids for sure. No; maybe, swag me
some, blondes have more fun,
twisty’s.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
giving our sweet chocolate milk
away
to ANY and EVERYBODY’S babies!
What a willing wet-nurse treat???
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
“our Studs”
to produce more babies
for fiscal slavery.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
improper foods
for our privileged families.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
no hats, coats, gloves or Cam-shoes
for our pampered spa-polished feet
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
which whips, we prefer be-used,
WHILE being beat.
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
allowed us to choose
which garden of Eden trees
we’d wanted to swing!
The Home of the brave and land of
the Free
by all means,
allowed us to choose
400 years of tormented pleas.
IF,
the Home of the brave and land of
their Free
truly allowed us a choice
to be or not to be
enslaved…
Betta by golly wow; without, a
shadow of a doubt,
we’d certainly choose 400 more
years of delightful “evil-plagued” slavery
while giving it “our” finest praise
and shout!
2 THUMBS UP!
SLAVERY “WAS NOT” A CHOICE Kanye,
without a shadow of a slaves doubt.
ACCORDING TO Google.com,
(https://www.google.com/search?q=define+choice&oq=define+choice&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4261j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
Choice
CHois
noun
1. 1.
an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with
two or more possibilities.
"the choice between good and evil"
synonyms: option,
alternative, possible course of action
"you have no other choice"
Dedicated to:
Shake it to the east; shake it to the “WEST”;
our choice will be slavery Kanye, which we truly love the
best!
PLAN B IN ‘DA HOUSE!
Union measures, such as
Confiscation Acts and Emancipation
Proclamation
in 1863, WAR; WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
‘Everythang!
It ended slavery.
Removing those visible chains from
one’s neck, hands and copper-toned feet.
Party ‘ov’r here! Party ‘ov’r
there!
While ‘you’ze ‘laughin and ‘jokin…
The invisible PLAN B APPEARED!
The new improved slavery. Well
let’s JUST say;
for the sake of ‘sayin…its ‘SMOKIN!
AKA: DOPE!
Cloud 9
SUCCESSFULLY impairs one’s judgment
and ‘mindS,
learning, freedom and memory.
Addicting one, to loss realms of hope.
Forgetting to forget plan B
effectively enslaves one, mentally.
Thus, hampering the user’s ability
to think themselves as ‘ev’r
becoming free.
The dope certainly took us for
broke.
Arresting the ‘mindS
to plantation grinds as we so
willingly smoke.
Now 400 years later…
We’re back to Genesis.
Turning into our own traitors!
The new improved slavery has no
color…
It’s our mother’s, father’s,
sisters and brothers
and perilous to say, Kanye, it’s a
choice, one to another.
SLAVERY WAS NO JOKE!
Dedicated to:
The ‘Ol effective back-up plan UNTIL we’re back in visible
chains again.
WHAT GOD JOINS TOGETHER…
LET’S US ALL “TEAR” ASUNDER
Preacher-man.
“What therefore God hath joined
together,
let not man put asunder.” (Mark
10:9 KJV)
Who cares bout that…
We gone break this mess up
like no other!
Everyone plays his part in
wedding-bliss downfalls’.
Minister’s marrying ‘em at the
gate;
no counseling in sight;
nor telling ‘em WHY they should
wait. AT-ALL!
Preacher-man ain’t even with his
own wife…
Therefore, he’s-of no position
to teach what is wrong? After-all,
what IS right?
So,
he happily pronounces any an’
everybody
Man and wife.
I Do. I Do too.
AND IT’S BROKE UP ‘FO THE INK DRIES
(that night)!
Preacher-man.
Husbandman.
Flirting at the wedding
with the Matron of Honor, and
Maid of Honor and
her Bridesmaids. And
any other woman he thinks he can.
Did you forget already bout YOUR
complementarian-woman;
who IS your helpmate selected by
Him? And
remember what the word of God said:
“And Adam said,
This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh:
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.
Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh”
(Genesis 2:23-24).
Do the math man
You gotta “LEAVE” Momma and your
family alone
and care for your own home.
YOUR WIFE IS #ONE.
“JUST” in case you didn’t know…
Cannon-Law says so (PERIOD).
IF equally yoked;
two are one. So, when they do your
wife in…
They’ve offended you my friend.
Do the math and wipe your feet of
them.
ALL OF THEM!
But no. Not you;
you keep ‘em round ‘til the
marriage ends
Husbandman.
Woman.
“And the LORD God said,
It is not good that the man should
be alone;
I will make him an help meet for
him” (Genesis 2:18 KJV).
The word did not say
that you’re to run to girlfriends
and Ma and Pa when problems
come your way.
You’re a complementarian-woman
who is to STAND by your man, STAY,
dream, hope and OBEY God’s law,
come what may.
The storm clouds will rise.
And the strong winds will blow.
But you woman, hold-on to everybody
but your man
forsaking the commands of the I AM
that I AM.
And Lord knows, He’s the only
counselor of counselors
with a sound Biblical doctrine
plan.
But over your man…you choose family
foe and fake-friends
Woman.
Family and friends
MIND. YOUR. BUSINESS.
Get your own man and/or woman.
Then you can concentrate on your
own messy
state of affairs. Listen…
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, slow to wrath”
(James 1:19 KJV).
Oh, but not you…You’re ‘gonna make
SURE this marriage
gets broken up!
Cause you can’t stand their
happiness
whatsoever, all because your life’s
in one big mess!
So, you’re quick to gossip,
run your mouth and carry that bone.
Putting their marriage to the test.
Running their business through them streets;
which gives you great pleasure
adding insult to injury in their happy home.
And you don’t stop until misery
moves in
and those divorce proceedings
begin.
And then; only then…
your greatest joy comes when their
marriage IS done in
family and friends.
I do. I do too, vow to BREAK THEM
UP
in the name of love.
Dedicated to: I do. I do too, BREAK THEM UP!
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RENEE’ DRUMMOND-BROWN
RENEE’DRUMMOND-BROWN, is an accomplished
poetess with experience in creative writing. She is a graduate of Geneva
College of Western Pennsylvania. Renee’ is still in pursuit of excellence
towards her mark for higher education. She is working on her sixth book and has
numerous works published globally which can be seen in cubm.org/news, KWEE
Magazine, Leaves of Ink, Raven Cage Poetry and Prose Ezine, Realistic Poetry
International, Scarlet Leaf Publishing House, SickLit Magazine, The Metro
Gazette Publishing Company, Inc., Tuck, and Whispers Magazine just to name a
few. Civil Rights Activist, Ms. Rutha Mae Harris, Original Freedom Singer of
the Civil Rights Movement, was responsible for having Drummond-Brown’s very
first poem published in the Metro Gazette Publishing Company, Inc., in Albany,
GA. Renee’ also has poetry published in several anthologies and honorable
mentions to her credit in variouswriting outlets. Renee’ won and/or placed in
several poetry contests globally and her books are eligible for nomination for
a Black Book award in Southampton County Virginia. She was Poet of the Month
2017, Winner in the Our Poetry Archives and prestigious Potpourri Poets/Artists
Writing Community in the past year. She has even graced the cover of KWEE
Magazine in the month of May, 2016. Her love for creative writing is
undoubtedly displayed through her very unique style and her work solidifies her
as a force to be reckoned with in the literary world of poetry. Renee’ is
inspired by non-other than Dr. Maya Angelou, because of her, Renee’ posits
“StillIwrite, I write, and I’ll write!”
Thank you all for taking the time to read my published work. Pittsburgh author Renee' Drummond-Brown (Renee's Poems with Wings are Words in Flight).
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