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Dear Malcolm

from NEW PEACE by Taelor Gray

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I got so many questions
Questions you can’t answer but the exercise will stretch me
I’m in a place where my voice can make or break me
Thinking bout the risks involved if the powerful will hate me
If I’m real about it pastors let me down
The prophets taking money under tables—the psyche of the people so unstable this is fatal all around typically the sound coming from the black and brown
All the vulnerable—living comatose
They only visit with you for the quotables
I been living off the images you showed me
Composure under crisis, regal Axel Foley
Prime Eddie Murphy never had to face the dogs
Brothers turned accomplices with FBI involved
I read about your moms, with different hair texture
When your pops got murdered and she held it all together
Till they tried to call her crazy and they took you out the home
Never could imagine all the anger in your soul
Your father was a preacher but he taught you Marcus Garvey
You turned into a hustler, but you couldn’t disregard it
Years later you explored it through religion
The system you submitted to could tell that you was different
Without knowing you would outgrow it, use your mouth knowing that something had to change
Im amazed at the logic of ppl who would say that you’re a terrorist
Like a black man’s freedom look like arrogance
And really I can’t hear that in America
You taught me how to criticize and still keep your character
You called the white man a devil
Somehow that made them fear you, cuz there’s nothing they could tell you
That made you mythical, but you were visible
You fortified your knowledge over prison food
and even as a pastor you’re influence
I’m drawing from your strength as I seek to lead a movement
They said you ain’t a prophet cuz they question your profession
But I’m gon make them question if they ever heard your message

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from NEW PEACE, released June 25, 2021

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