Black Athletics Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

Africans

By Freeyad Ibrahim

They run away
They run
And they dance
They run away and dance, run away,
eat and dance
When their mothers give birth to them,
they emerge from their wombs dancing
They ran away
Of tyrants
Of dictatorships
Of cannibalism
Of diseases
From epidemics
From murder and hostile tribes they run, fleeing
They use not their minds
But their muscles
Their legs become like solid wood
Solid
Fast
They dance and run all their lives
They run
They escape from hunger
famine
the collective hell
Poverty
Hunger
And dehydration
And from escaping death,
they express themselves
in Europe
and America
They excel at running away and dancing
And the medals they won
I was hoping to hold an Olympics or marathon
specifically for blacks
Because blacks are already genetically superior
When they prevail,
the whites become frustrated

They don't need training
Because they were trained beforehand
With cheetahs
And lions
And the tigers
They danced with monkeys

America has a history of racial discrimination
Yet Proud of them, cherishing them and loving them
As long as the Olympics exist
And when the games are over
Racism returns after a recession

FRYAD HUGO