The Black Boy Poem by Itohan Stephanie #

Our Fathers gravestones would bare us witness
The knife of a white boy, Pierced thier hearts, and stole thier Lives.
And flooded our Clay to red
Let that red Clay hunt their tents
Oh great Benin! .
Our mothers became widows
All for What!

The white boy stole our villages
In Uniforms, invaded our markets
Dig it out! Dig it all out! !
White boy stole our gold
The colour of my skin was my crime
Who dares my gene Pool?
What price is my freedom?
My Dear Benin!

Isn't this white boy
The demon from the west.?
Stole Even Allies to Aliance
Luted our Artefact's, we were robbed!
Our kings trampled like criminals
What is our crime, ? !

Our harrens flooded with widows
Stole our brothers
What is your grudge?
Inhuman monsters wearing white uniforms,
how could they bear such
how could a man's heart bear this much hatred, let that heart fail.!


My Melanin is my Heritage
How dare you question it?
gushing through my veins
As like a king in his prime
Taking it all, beat by beat, it whims.

GOD is GOD, you are not.
You can not take away my humanity Citadels became trap grounds
You set our farms on fire,
aiming we starve
But our Land, took our side
You intimidate us with your guns
Aha.Yet forgot we are the bullets
But alas.the black boy
GOD is his rescue

This white boy with a black soul
Would pay for all his crimes
A bitter soul, wrapped in a white sheet
Bring back my Empathy
Else, I refuse to be sued
Even the fireflies, affirmed to this tale
In bundles, the fireflies saw it
All night long, and bore me withness

Why would you steal a man's wife
For coins, and trample on his Ego
A man's Ego is his Right
you betray your own kind
Your Partiality is your Ignorance
Black or white, yet, same content
So I am your brother by Right
A man with two legs and hands I be.
Now Your sins are your own.


And after all this turmoil
The black boy carved a niche
His Sons will bare his name
My fathers gravestone will not be forgotten
I am the black boy, with a white heart
I am Benin City!