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amongst Nyela Rucker REALITY

Draped in melanin Speaking to my kin I stand on feet Looking in desperate eyes Surprised by our excellence Surprised by our intelligence Surprised by our magnificence The godly spirit residing In our hearts, heads, soul Our people adorned with the spirit of royalty not smell of death from swinging trees Our roots etched into the molten core of this earth Strung along like glittering beads Amongst the velvet sky That flows as long as the wind blows and the sea crashes upon broken crystals Our story’s longevity that beats a million times As the heartbeats of the youth Our bodies decomposed in the raw earth and open sea We are the foundation of a world that forsakes our identities But our greatness cannot be contained by fallacies Breaking through boundaries Histories Luxuries Fantasies Discoveries We are the descendants of greatness Kings queens activists scholars Text may forsake these truths Yet the manner of how we walk, speak, perform, dress, We are the answers to every academic test Let us determine our realities Let us help the world reset