A poem of Solidarity

For my brothers and my sisters

Of the R E D

Same way BLM

Got y’all marching with me 

Gotta shed a little love

Spot a little of light

BLM be on my left

And I got RED on my right

Ballin’ up both fists

We be on the resist

Sick and tired be shit on

Now we taking a piss

Mobilizing online

Gonna march in the streets

We get met with opposition

Clock us takin’ the beats

It’s the same old story

That you tired of hearing

It’s the same old glory 

That we tired of fearing

So we challenge those who never live

With something to lose

If you’re gonna walk a mile with us 

Then take off your shoes

Predictably some people wanna play the blame game

Privatizing privilege 

Perpetuating poor

Forego a light stroll down Memory Lane

Let me simply take you all on a Starlight Tour

Sixties scooping 

Seventies slaughter

Aching eighties 

Nineties Nada

Damn thing changed 

We past 2000

Lack of Health Care

Last of Housing

Sift through semantics

Talk etymology 

Sometimes subtly

Suppressing the psychology 

Displaced 

Now Found

On the reservation

Understand the word

Means state of limitation

Paying much attention to sensational drama

Speaking not of Intergenerational Trauma

Looking for injustice

It’s right here at home 

Down with Apartheid

It’s based in our own

First things first now

Understand treaty

Doesn’t mean surrender

Doesn’t mean needy

All are us of Stewarts

And not just some

With the needs that are greater 

Than the few or the one

Copyright © 2021

Wakefield Brewster 

aka: DaLyrical Pitbull 

Professional Poet & Spoken Word Artist 

Professional Poetic Interpreter™️