Blood
By Ruhudeen Ali
It's blood for blood 'cuz
y'see blood only wants more blood
Can't you see? They want more to bleed, its in their creed
'Attack their seed! Cuz blood won't say 'peace,'
afterall, they want us deceased
Hot blood murders in cold blood
murdered for a senseless grudge
When the One up above said 'Love'
But they killed it, our blood, they spilled it
and now they won't be satisfied until rivers flow
of what used to make us grow
But now, No --- blood will flow
flow in the East, flow in the West
North & South they can't be routed
Voices shouting, touting, while the meek suffer defeat
the future's looking bleak...and so I bleed
cuz bombs and drones kill but make more clones
killing in droves like when Hitler used the stoves
as history repeats itself, or so I'm told
that's how the story goes
And I can only cry because they want our tears too
They want us to fear and when we denounce
they don't even hear nor do they see
remaining calm like the sea
no longer guarantees safety
our flesh is tasty so they backbite
bigots with bayonets give us bullets and death threats
and pundits with bets on headliners readin' 'Who's next?'
I'm vexed cuz I'm a peace-loving being
and everybody in my community too
but the only priceless blood here I'm seein'
is of a White or a Jew
but our blood and tears are just water
that's why it's the juice of slaughter
its easier to stomp the grapes
like raping our daughters and moms
dropping bombs on St. Johns and Uncle Toms alike
Blood is a savage in the night
Blood loves to fight
Blood loves to lust
Blood hates to rust, and so it flows
as history repeats itself, or so I'm told
and that's how the story goes....
