Poetry

HAITI DEM HATE U,
200 YEARS AGO,
HAITI,
U STRUCK A VITAL BLOW,
IN A WHITE SUPREMACY SHOW.

HAITI- U STRUCK A CRITICAL BLOW,
IN A WHITE SUPREMACY SHOW.

HAITI, U MEK DEM CRAZY,
HAITI, U MEK DEM CRAZY,
WEN UNO BEAT DE THIEFING BWOY NAME,
NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE.

HAITI U MEK DEM CRAZY,
WID ENVY AFTER UNO FREE UP UNO COUNTRY.

HAITI, HAITI
UNO FREE UP UNO COUNTRY FROM INA DE 19TH CENTURY,
HAITI, A TIME FI WI START A AFRIKAN SOLIDARITY,
HAITI, MEK WI START A PAN AFRIKAN UNITY,
MEK WI BUILD OUR GLOBAL FAMILY.

HAITI MI LOVE U,
AN LONG TIME MI FI HELP U.

HAITI MI LOVE U,
AN LONG TIME, MI FI GET WID U.

HAITI,
U SPEAK FRENCH CREOLE,
MI CHAT PATOIS,
BUT WHA, WE CAAN STILL GET TOGETHER,
FOR THE SCATTERED CHILDREN OF AFRIKA.

HAITI U WERE THE FIRST,
FI START A REVOLUTION,
WEN MANY AFRIKANS ONLY DREAM OF LIBERATION.

CHECK IT OUT, CHECK IT OUT
IT WAS BOUKMAN,
A JAMAICAN, AN AFRIKAN, FIGHTING FOR LIBERATION,
HIM RAAAGE, A 13 YEAR REBELLION, FOR AFRIKAN LIBERATION.

IN 1804, HAITI STRUCK DEADLY BLOW,
TO WHITE SUPREMACY SHOW,
FREEING THEMSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES AND HOE.

DE HAITIAN REVOLUTION,
MEK NUFF AFRIKAN FIGHT FI LIBERATION,
REVOLTING AGAINST MAASA PLAN,
HEAR DI REVOLUTION A SPREAD IN A DE CARIBBEAN,
AN PON AMERICAN PLANTATION,
MAKING AFRIKAN HAVING AMBITION,
TO LIVE AS FREE HUMANS.

TOUSSAINT GO PON DE ATTACK,
WHA DAT,
TOUSSAINT A LEAD DE ASSAULT,
BLAAACK CLOTH, BLAAAAK CLOOOOTH
ATTRACTING THE FRENCH WRAATH.

HAITI,
A HATE/ MEK U INA BAD SITUATION,
U PEOPLE DEM/ INA LONG SUFFARATION,
LOOKIN FOR/ UNIFICATION,
BUT NO MEK RELIGION/ CAUSE DIVISION,
DUNG UN HAITIAN LAN.

HAITI/ DEM TELL U,
DAT VOODOO EVIL,
BUT A DE MISSIONARIES,
WHO WERE THE REAL MERCENARIES FOR CENTURIES. USING DEM ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION,
FI CAUSE DIVISION AMONGST HAITIAN. RAPING DE SOUL OF PROUD NATION.

HAITI,
MANY DICTATORS,
MEK U SUFFA,
GETTING THEIR SUPPORT FROM DE WRETCHED AMERICA.

ARISTIDE,
U NO SEE A TIME FI THE HAITIAN PEOPLE DEM SUCCEED.

ARISTIDE,
A TIME FI DE PEOPLE DEM STOP BLEED.
ARISTIDE, U NO SEE DE PEOPLE DEM IN NEED.

HAITI, STOP U SELF-HATE
HAITI, U MUS EMBRACE U AFRIKAN FAITH.

HAITI MI LOVE U,
MEK WI SIDUNG AND SPEAK DE SAME LANGUAGE,
HAITI, MEK WI/ CHAT SWAHILI.

HAITI, MEK WI/ CHAT TWI.

HAITI, MEK WI LIVE FREE/ FROM POVERTY.

HAITI, MI LOOOVE UUUU/FI TRUE.

HAITI, MEK WI SIDUNG AND SIP BUSH TEA.

HAITI, MEK WI CHAT/ SOME CREOLE,
HAITI, MEK WI TEK BACK/ DE WORLD.

HAITI, MEK WI SIDUNG AN/ CHAT PATOIS,
HAITI, MEK WI FORM A CIRCLE/ AN BUN DE CHALWA.

HAITI, A TIME FI U/ GET U REPARATIONS,
HAITI, IT MUST BE PAID IN/ DE TRIIIILLIONS,
U HEAAR FRANCE.

HAITI, DEM ROB WI
DEM THIEF WI,
DEM ROB WI,
DEM THIEF WI. AN WI WAAAN IT BAAACK. AN WE WAAAAN IIIIT BAAAACK.

FRANCE U GET DAT! PRESIDENT CHIRAC U GET DAT! U BETTA MOOOVE BACK.

HAITI, HAAAITI MI LOOOOOVE UUUUU. HAITI, MI AGO WORK HARDER FI HELP U,
HAITI, MI LOVE U FI TRUE.

I AM LIVING IN A GUN CULTURE, CHA CHA
WHICH SYMBOLIZES WHITEMAN’S POWER.

GUN RIGHTS ACTIVIST,
NO PACIFIST, GUN LOVER,
WAR MONGER.

GUNS IN THE WRONG HANDS,
GUNS IN THE RIGHT HANDS,
GUNS CAUSING MAJOR INFLICTIONS UPON AFRIKANS.

YOU REMEMBA COLUMBINE HIGH,
MANY INNOCENT SCHOOL CHILDREN DIE.

YOUNG BOYS FIRING THEIR TOOLS,
IN THE MIDDLE OF SCHOOLS,
JUST TRYING TO BE COOL,
PLAYIN DE FOOL.

CHILDREN HAVE NO SHELTER,
ACCIDENTALLY DYING FROM UNHOLSTERED REVOLVER.

HALLOW POINT BULLETS,
PIERCING BULLET PROOF VEST,
WICKED HEARTS OF MEN,
CONSTRICTING AROUND THEIR CHEST.

NUFF YOUTH A WATCH GODFATHER,
ENTRAPPING THE MOVIE GOER,
WITH GANGSTAS AND MOBSTERS FOR HEREOS.

CRYING MOTHERS AND FATHERS,
DYING BROTHERS,
LOADED TRIGGER FINGER,
SPLATTERED GUN POWDER,
ANOTHER DEAD MOTHER F…R, A SUCKER, A LOSER.

GUN CONTROL,
OUT OF CONTROL,
DIRTY COPS ON PATROL,
GUN MEN WAITING ON DEATH ROW,
THE WAIT TAKING ITS TOLL.

EVIL DEVOUR,
OUR YOUTH FORGETTING TO PRAISE JAH, JAH,
NO PRAYER,
SUCCUMBING ONLY TO BABYLON POWER.

WI LIVING IN A GUN CULTURE, CHA CHA CHA
WITH VAMPIRES AND VULTURES,
SELLING GUNS ON THE STREET,
BULLETS EXPLODING,
CAUSING INTERNAL BLEEDING,
FOR VAMPIRE’S FEEDING.

GOD’S PEOPLE,
REJECT, REJECT, REJECT, THIS POLITICAL GUN CULTURE, CHA CHA CHA
CREATE YOUR OWN WORLD ORDER.

REJECT, REJECT, REJECT THIS BABYLON GUN CULTURE,
CHA, CHA, CHA.

AN MEK WI LIVE BETTA

HOW COME HUMANS NEVA LEARN FROM WAR,
SOO MANY WARS.

WE HAD WORLD WAR 1,
THEN WE HAD WORLD 2,
NOW WE WAN WORLD 3.

WAR, WAR, WAR.
TOO MUCH WAR, STAR.

NUCLEAR WAR,
ATOMIC WAR,
THE WAR OF 1812,
WAR, WAR, WAR
TOO MUCH WAR, STAR.

THE WORLD FOUGHT MANY CIVIL WARS,
THAT WAS UNCIVIL,
CAUSING MUCH SUFFERING TO CIVILIZATION.

WAR AFAR,
CAUSING DEEP INTERNAL SCAR, STAR.

EARTH HAVE TOO MUCH WARS,
MI WAN MOVE GO A MARS.

NOW DEM GONE A SPACE,
FI START STAR WARS,
WHILE EARTH HAVE STAR-VATIONS.

WEN RUSSIA AND AMERICA USE TO FIGHT,
DEM CALL IT ‘COLD WAR’,
WARS IN AFRICA,
DEM CALL IT ‘HOT WAR’.

WAR, WAR, WAR,
TOO MUCH WAR,
BLOODY WAR, JUS SHED NUFF BLOOD
WAR ON CRIME, NO SOLVE CRIME
WAR ON DRUGS, NEVA STOP DRUGS USE
BUT DI WAR GOES ON. AN ON.

AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION GIVES DEM THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS,
BUT DEM A ARMS-HOUSE FI TRUTH,
SELLING THEIR ARMS THROUGH CIA AND FBI,
TO FIGHT POLITIKAL WAR IN JAMAICA.

GANG WAR,
TOO MUCH WARRIORS,
NOT ENOUGH LOVERS.

WAR, WAR, WAR
DIS IS A CRUSADE WAR,
DIS IS A RELIGIOUS WAR,
DIS IS A HOLY WAR,
DIS IS A UNHOLY WAR, STAR.
FOLLOW THE NORTH STAR.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN
SUFFERS THE MOST FROM WAR,
SUFFERING FROM STAR-VATION. FOOD AID INTERVENTION.
A NO PREVENTION FROM MALNUTRITION.

BOB MARLEY SING SAY,
UNTIL THE IGNOBLE AND UNHAPPY REGIMES
THAT NOW HOLD OUR BROTHERS IN ANGOLA,
MOZAMBIQUE, SOUTH AFRICA
IN SUBHUMAN BONDAGE HAVE BEEN TOPPLED,
UTTERLY DESTROYED,
EVERYWHERE IS WAR.

DI PEOPLE DEM A MARCH,
ANTI WAR,
DI PEOPLE DEM A MARCH,
ANTI WAR.

STARS FROM HOLLYWOOD,
NOT PREPARE TO FIGHT DIS YA WAR, STAR.

DIS IS A BUSH WAR,
DIS IS A BIN LADEN WAR,
DIS IS A SAD DAM WAR, IT IS A OIL WAR
TOO MUCH WAR, STAR.

BUSH AND SAD MAN,
SHOULD FIGHT THEIR OWN WAR,
WE SHOULD LOCK THEM IN A WAR ROOM,
AN MEK DEM SPAR, STAR.

DE ONLY WEY TO STOP ALL WARS,
DE ONLY WEY TO STOP ALL WARS, LADIES
IS TO MAKE MEN,
CARRY BABIES FOR NINE MONTHS OF CHANGES,
LEAVING DEM WID C-SECTION SCARS,
THEN MAN WOULDN’T BE SO QUICK TO SEND DEM BOYS AND GIRLS
TO FIGHT UNNECESSARY WARS, STAR.

WAR. WAR. WAR.
MEK WI STOP DIS YA WAR. EE, STAR. EEE, STAR!

THE CALLING

I AM CALLING ALL RASTA-MAN,
I AM CALLING ALL NYHABINGI, ALL BOBO, ALL TWELVE TRIBE

I AM CALLING ALL NATION OF ISLAMS,
I AM CALLING ALL CHRISTIANS,
I AM CALLING ALL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX.

I AM CALLING ALL AFRIKANS,
NO LONGER SHALL WE MAKE RELIGION,
CAUSE DIVISION AMONGST AFRIKANS.

THIS CALLING IS NOT ONE OF DIVISION,
But ONE- of -0ne-NIFICATION.

THIS CALLING IS AN URGENCY CALLING,
NOT AN EMERG-ENCY CALLING,
ITS NOT EVEN ABOUT 9.1.1. OR EVEN 1.1.9 ,
THIS CALLING IS AN UR-GENCY CALLING,
THIS IS NOT A CELLULAR CALLING,
TURN OFF U DAMN CELLULAR,
THIS IS NOT TELEPHONE CALLING, THIS IS A URGENCY CALLING.

I AM CALLING ALL CLASSES,
LOWER CLASS, MIDDLE CLASS AND UPPER CLASS,
NO LONGER SHALL THESE CLASSES CAUSE DIVISION,
ALL CLASSES ARE NOW OUT OF SESSION.

I AM CALLING ALL INTELLECTUALS,
EVEN THose IN DENIAL,
STOP DENYING U AFRIKAN ROOTS, MIND U EAT STRANGE FRUITS.

I AM CALLING ALL JAMAICANS,
ALL TRINIDADIANS, ALL CUBANS, ALL BAJANS
I AM CALLING ALL CARIBBEANS, ALL ASIANS, ALL NORTH AMERIKANS, ALL EUROPEANS
AS LONG AS YOU IS AN AFRIKAN.

THIS IS A PAN AFRIKAN CALLING,
I AM CALLING ALL MELANITES,
TO ONE-NITE.

I AM CALLING ALL AFRIKANS ON THE CONTINENT,
I AM CALLING ALL AFRIKANS ON THE DIASPORA,
IT’S ABOUT TIME WE COME TOGETHER.
THIS IS AN ECONOMIC CALLING,
THIS IS A SELF-RELIANCE CALLING.

THIS IS AN ANCESTRAL CALLING,
I AM CALLING MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY, SISTA NANNY & THE ONE ROBERT NESTA MARLEY,

THIS IS A HIGHER CALLING.

I AM CALLING NKRUMAH, FROM GHANA,
I AM CALLING SELASSIE I, FROM ITHIOPIA,
I AM CALLING TOUSSAINT L’OVERTURE, FROM HAITI,
I AM CALLING WALTER RODNEY,
I AM CALLING LINTON KWESI ,
I AM CALLING HARRIET TUBMAN, FOR HER WORK IN THE ABOLITION,
I AM CALLING STEVEN BIKO,
I AM CALLING CHAKA ZULU,
I AM CALLING MALCOLM X, FROM THE U.S.,
I AM CALLING MARIE JOSEPH ANGELIQUE, WHO BUN DOWN MONTREAL,
I AM CALLING ROSEMARIE BROWN, FOR HER HUMAN RIGHTS CROWN, SHE FIGHT RACISM IN A THIS YA TOWN.

I AM CALLING ALL THOSE WHO FOUGHT TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE,
I AM CALLING ALL THOSE WHO SOLD THE CAPTIVES INTO SLAVERY,
THIS CALLING IS ABOUT FORGIVING,
THIS IS A SPIRITUAL CALLING.

THIS IS A SERIOUS CALLING,
I AM EVEN BAWLING,
THIS IS A BAWLING CALLING,
LAWD WE HAFFE STOP KILLIN EACH OTHER,
WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER.

THIS IS NOT A CALLING OF HATE,
OR EVEN A CALLING OF DIVISION,
BUT THIS CALLING IS ON A MISSION,
TO CREATE ONE-NITY AMONG THE AFRIKAN FAMILY.

I AM CALLING FOR ONE UNITED AFRIKA FOR AFRIKANS,
I AM CALLING FOR ONE AFRIKAN NATIONHOOD
THIS IS A PAN AFRIKAN UNITY/ONE-NITY CALLING,
THIS IS A SANKOFA CALLING,
CAN YOU HEAR IT…
CAN YOOU HEEAR IIT…

THIS POEM IS DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO REALIZE THAT THE AFRYKAN DESTINY LIES IN OUR ABILITY TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ALL OUR PEOPLE.