Maverick Poet Award Finalist: ....AND THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING.... by UMI
Issa Salih Umi is a poet (Presenter Of Eternal Truths) wno is the first of siblings born in the city of Chicago.. I poet because I have something to say. I poet a lot because I have A LOT to say. Beyond answering to the name poet. I consider myself a wordsmith, cosmic scribe, performance artist, and sound shape shifter. I have discovered the primary theme that write about is relationships with all beings/all life (who, what, when, where, and why?) What is my accountability and responsibility to insure that I give my best to diligently preserve, sustain, respect, honor, perpetuate that relationship ad infinitum .
And The Children Are Watching.represents my response to those persons/nations/governments who profusely profess their love for children and offer up multitudes of oaths to protect them yet their actions/conducts/behaviors sacrifice their lives on the altars of war, poverty, violence, greed, ignorance, self-destructive behavior, indifference, hatred, dis-ease, and racism. The "... And The Children Are Watching" poem is to serve notice to those persons, nations, and governments that the Children (Of The World/Of The Sun/Of God have watched you and are watching you until they can take the necessary steps, ways, and means to
respond in the appropriate manner.
....AND THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING....
by UMI
INTRO
CHANTHEM
And The Children Are Watching,
And The Children Are Clocking Truths
And The Children Are Watching...
And The Children Are Watching You
And The Village Is.....
Watching
Watching
Watching
Watching
And The Children Are
Knocking
Knocking
Knocking
Knocking
And The Village Is Watching
Watching
Watching
Watching
And The History Is Knocking
The History Is Knocking
Knocking
Knocking
Knocking
ou say the children they must be saved
As you mislead us to uinto early graves.
You want us to say no to drugs,
Yet say yes to oathed up thugs
You don't want us to say this
yes this we know.
Enuff of this shit. We
Can't take it no mo.
You teach us be seen/not heard.
You preach us believe our gospelled words
You kill us on ugly/ungodly days in
or outside of the hoods.
You touch me, then you killed my childhood.
You killed my sisters/my brothers,
my friends that I will never again see
You sinned my dreams,
dreams I will never be.
You killed, killed, killed me
with you dreaded fears
masked manned hysterica
You killed Jesus Children
of this of thee America.
killing sprees in known/unknown seasons
You kill, me for all your wrong reasons.
You kill me, took my freedom prisoner
You killed me, my scarred soul eye witness
You kill me in quietly sadistic.
Killing pandemics with deadly timed statistics.
You killed me, the list is endless,
You dissed my life relentless.
You killing, justified homicides defended,
How does my child self make sense out of nonsense?
How can you believe we children
are the future
We lie dormant some dark space nside your head
where hostile hypocrisies we never neutered
By your missiles guided truth make us dead.
You kill me in overseasoned wars live from the frontlines,
You kill me behind demonized enemy eyes,
Battlefield zones of the free and braved,
Now I lay me down to sleep in yonder graves.
You kill me
Sanctified
You kill me
Genocides
You kill me
Homicides
You kill me
Suicides
You kill me
Aborticide
You kill me
Infanticide
You kill me
Ambicide
You kill me
Gynecide
You kill me
Vaticide
You kill me
Vaticide
You kill me
Toxicide
You kill me
Getmicide
You killed me,
War on poverty
War on drugs
War on crime
You kill me
Urban wars,
Cold wars
World wars
Hallowed be thy name
Shallow be thy claim
No can explain
Why these bullets are inside head?
How am I in the wrong at the wrong time.
In this place peace can't find no where its head,
War drones
War zones
War tones,
War sirens
No I lay me down to the moans and cries of anguish screams loud
No I lay me down to bleed out on this
city street.
As I view my last worldly scene all ask
Our Mother,
Our Father,
Where is the love when you need it....
OUTRO I
And The Children Are Watching
And The Village Is Watching
And The Mystery Is Unsolving
And The Histories Are Knocking
And The Memories Are Akashiic
And The Children Are Watching,
And The Children Are Clocking Truths
And The Children Are Watching...
And The Children Are Watching You
OUTRO II
AND YOU KILL ME
AND YOU KILLED ME
JOR’DELL RICHARDSON
JAHEIM MCMILLIAN
TAMIR RICE
ALAUNTE SCOTT
TRAYVON MARTIN
DALANEO MARTIN
GEORGE FLOYD
E. J. BRADFORD
MICHAEL BROWN
BOTHAN JEAN
JAMEE JOHNSON
MICHAEL DEAN
ANTWON ROSE
STEPHON CLARK
ALI OSMAN
JASON LIPSCOMB
ROBERT ADEMI
GERSHUN FREEMAN
AMAREE’YA HENDERSON
DARRYL TYREE WILLIAMS
ALONZO BAGLEY
ANTHONY LOWE
KEENAN ANDERSON
TYRE NICHOLS
DERRICK KITTLING
OMARI CRYER
THELONIOUS “RA RA” MCKNIGHT…
TAKAR SMITH
DONOVAN LEWS
DANTE KITTRELL
KYLE DAIL
ROBERT ADAMS
RODERICK BROOKS
JAYLAND WALKER
IRVIN D. MOORER CHARLEY
KOKOU CHRISTOPHER FIAFONOU
ALHAJI M. SOW
ANTHONY HARDEN
DAUNTE WRIGHT
MICHAEL ROSE
XZAVIER HILL
SINCERE PIERCE
FREDERICK COX
ANTWON GILMORE
TORY BROWN
RYAN LEROUX
MCHALE ROSE
DOLAL IDD
JOSHUA FEAST
MAURICE CHILDREN
MARCELLIS STINNETTE
BREONNA TAYLOR
MA’KHIA BRYANT
PAMELA TURNER
SANDRA BLAND
ATATIANA JEFFERSON
KORRYN GAINES
YVETTE SMITH
MIRIAM CAREY
SHELLEY FREY
DARNISHA HARRIS
MALISSA WILLIAMS
SHANTEK DAVIS
REKIA BOYD
AIYANNA STANLEY JONES
TARIKA WILSON
KATHRYN JOHNSON