The Original Man

Are you done?
  When the protests are over
   and the marches no more
   when "Black Power" reduces to rhetoric
   and there are no wars
Are you done?
   When the cameras are gone
   and the media is silent
   when your friends have left you
    hanging in the balance
Are you done?
   Bitter backs on bitter Blacks
   from stealing internal organs
   from Kendrick to Lacks
Are you done?
   Emancipation proclamations
   and guerilla warfare liberations
   with East African children
   dying from starvation.
Are you done?
   West Papuan annihilation
    capitalistic organizations
    Hip-Hop degradations with
    mass incarcerations
Are you done?
   Great Kushite pyramids
    fighting off unscrupulous Assyrians
    From Hannibal protecting his lineage
    to Shakur protecting the indigenous
We WEREN'T done...because we are STILL HERE!