To Virginia's Ameliorating Deceit...

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From the annuals of racist symbolism

Now comes the “Litany at Virginia”,

Razor slicing keloids of once thought

Healed wounds veiled in deception;

Once again, the blatant symbols

And emblems of racism reek

With that stench that was once thought

To irritate even the nostrils and ears of God,

But the pale forensic omnipotent character

Of power mongering, again sinks its saber tooth

Into tenderized justice, releasing bigoted juices—

Flowing with the contaminated thoughts of amelioration;

Though the door is open, the caged bird continues to sing

The melodic blues of racism revealed in the cultured hell

That is laced in the deception of party politics players:

Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Communists—

All led by whom; all in the interest of whose ancestors?

They say that Virginia is the land of lovers; whose love?

Forgive and forget?!  The first frigid slave ship landed here!

Let us forgive ourselves; but not the symbolism of the river:

In Virginia, the river runs really deep and they call it, The Black

River—May our souls never forget to look back and do right.

Remember, my children, amelioration is not a solution

And we are not the problem.  Like the plague, some cancers

Will destroy a nation within a nation unless cured:

Only the worker to cure dies; the river works goes on;

We still have many boats to row to the shores of liberation.

                            Copyright © 02/2019

                             Millard Lowe, Virginia

                             mlowe5@aol.com