I Know

I Know…..
I know who I am the black dot centered
in the light the silent peace wedged
deep between the struggle in the fight
I am the star in the sky of night
leading to freedom simply by shining bright I am the first atom made flesh
I bless you with my greatness and you
hate this the fact that I gave the world
language history explains this
I am the pharaoh who wrote the letter
to Rosetta on stone encrypting my code
of ethics on the homes of my people
whom were buried in pyramids wrapped
in the finest clothes our bodies draped
in shimmering emeralds, diamonds & gold
while your corpses lay rotting in the womb
of our mother earth and I know back then
that my people saw more with one third
of an eye than at present you do with the
whole of two must I remind you that
the heavens were our mansions and thee
obelisk were then what you would now call
trump towers that towered over all
great or small yes I built the walls
of Babel and the fortress of Babylon from
which the great wall of china tried to
duplicate but could not replicate
I gave them arts to martial limestone
and marble to sculpture I am your
culture most humans know
by the evidence of their lips nose and skin
that they are of African melanin
and who do you think gave Indians
their bow and arrows it was the Zulus
who for centuries had traveled to
and fro Cortez saw their gold
tips and monuments of me viewed
from his ships at sea I know who I am!
and I am the Niger river bathing eve
in the evening of here grieving
moments after her eating from the
tree of me I am the symbol of life and
I know who I am! and I simply am what I am!
I know! yes I know!
who I am!!!