Your Black Skin © May 29, 2010 Kamal Imani

Because of your black skin.
They called you all kinds of names when you were a child
And every so often, you encounter disrespect and subtle discrimination even now.
And you’re infected with abnormal defense mechanisms like a virus
Not realizing that you are black like the original African deities Isis Auset and her man Ausirus
But you as well as the haters must now know that you are the original guardian angel of the bible.
And there would be no human survival if it wasn’t for your cosmic arrival.
So the white, yellow, brown, red and black women and men
All owe you spiritual and intellectual reparations, apologies should be in order
For what is life without your sacred waters
That we call melanin
That divine black pigment that can be found in your pineal gland-in your cranium
And when the sun stimulates your melanin
Your electromagnetic energies expand.
Your spiritual energies unravel and astraltravel to the constellation orion
And you come back down to earth on th