Ours again for the taking!

By Stanley Collymore

The physical and barbaric shackles of the enforced slavery

and appalling bondage of our Black Race may have

somewhat gone away but the painful, humiliating

and malevolent restrictions of inured racism

with their attendant psychological scars

still clearly remain and, in addition, in many cases

still dominantly prevail with the debilitating

mental outcomes and poor self-esteem

problems for countless numbers

of our people. However,

those of us who are

strong, resilient,

unwavering

and absolutely committed in our labours towards

the achievement of the unrestricted attainment

of human dignity and the complete racial

redemption of our Black Race will,

with every modicum of human

perseverance and endurance at our mutual

disposal carry on with our arduous but

nevertheless cherished task of not

only endeavouring to free our

people physically but also

cerebrally as well from

their psychologically

restrictive shackles

of self-ruination.

Completely convinced, as we most certainly are

in our own minds, that we as a people and a

Black Race – the first ever to emerge on

and freely walk the surface of this Earth – will

again ultimately and permanently in our

endeavours triumphantly prevail

with supreme dignity as the

distinguished human

beings that we

rightfully

are.

© Stanley V. Collymore

1 August 2019.

Author’s Remarks:

This poem was completely inspired by and proudly written in grateful and commemorative thanks to all those Afro-Caribbean and other Black heroes and heroines – past, present and emergent ones for the future – who altruistically and with unreserved commitment do everything in their respective power to emancipate our people and Black Race in every conceivable regard.