BLACKENED

From ages past, soiled and blunted

We have been hauled and casted

into shades, darkened shades of humanity

and everything we hold, they have

Everything we mode, they modify

Our minds, truly blackened

Not our intelligence, neither our prudence

We are the omission in our mirror

The zeal always mishandled

The evil planted on doors

Those greed and shared loots

shall flourish in our continuous shame

Maybe we have accepted as they said

Putting us in some inked pages

that the Black man with the black mind

Progress he shall never find

We have being blackened not cursed

for the sake of identity

Neither some discovery in pages burnt

So let's clear history as they wrote

and be truthful and behold

We are made to identify and be identified

A craft of distinction and boldness

As our creation gave

We are blackened, not cursed