Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti's Page

Frustration Denied


I often tire
of fighting
for a people
who believe
in their enemies
even more
than their enemies
believe in themselves.
It is not easy
to work
toward
the enlightenment
of a people
hell-bent
on destroying themselves
as a personal favor
to those
they seek validation through
and even a semblance
of conditional love
from,
a people determined
to live
with their murders,
rapists,
diseducators,
destroyers,
to sleep with them,
to eat out of their plates
and off their floors.
We have… Continue