AS WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE

We pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
For which it stands justice for all and liberty too

One nation under God indivisible so they say
Indiscriminate to religion race

                     sex even gay

As we pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
Silent voices wonder if its the right thing to do

Excuse us for doubting in time of pain and need
Oh say can you see unite regardless of creed

So we pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
It seems like the politically correct thing to do

Since the home of the brave burnt in spacious sky
And crumbled to the ground but still we ask why

Should we pledge allegiance to the red white and blue
While we wait for our promised dreams to come true

Among rubbles of sacrificed lives can be seen
The tangled arms in sleeves yellow red black and green

Copyright © Delores Chamblin
September 2001

 

A TO Z SUMMATION OF OUR SITUATION

Assimilation yet such widespread segregation
Beautification around city slum deterioration

Concentration of blacks in the prison plantation
Discrimination cause boycott and mass demonstration

Extermination of all the possible "terrorist" nations?
Fragmentations of our people in their personal relations

Generation gaps, perplexed ask for an explanation
Humilation and fear throughout the airport station

Integration of our richest, for the poorest - segregation
Justification for a war in the midst of mass starvation?

Kwanzaa-education, seven principles for our elevation
Litigation for injustices, and the over-due compensation

Modernization and technology in the African nation
Naturalization of self or stop all the proliferation?

Obligation to a hypocritical, double standard nation
Publication of race confrontation in higher education:

Qualification or just an exaggeration of grade inflation?
Reparations demands - for our past and present situation

Salvation-religion, a way to our people's elevation
Temptation for us to go with the flow of the nation

Unification of race and family to help the situation
Verification and DNA testing for the false accusation

Westernization, infiltration changing other civilization
eXpectation to improve our own complex unique situation

Young-generation music rappers, black female "sexploitation"
Zulu-relation? Torn apart, slavery still haunts the nation

Copyright © Delores Chamblin
January 2002

 

LOOKING BACK .....

Oftentimes I stayed
in the shade
of the trees all day.

But today I danced
and pranced
along the moist cool bay,

watching butterflies and bees
swarming around trees ...

young tropical trees
that were swaying
and playing
along with the breeze.

I sat near a mass
of withered grass
and delicate little flowers,

thinking of nothing at all,
just watching leaves fall,
descending in little showers.

As the evening neared
and I feared
the mysteriously tranquil dark,

I quickly got up and began
to skip then ran
home, forgetting about my lark.

When I reached my shack
the same black
of the night was everywhere.

So I went straight ahead
into my bed,
not looking back on my fear.

Copyright © 1973
Delores Duncan (Chamblin)