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To those who pillaged and plundered for spices
Salt alone is not seasoning
Adding pepper is not spice
We were traumatised together
But we never healed
Neither together nor alone
Our souls died with Rhodes Must Fall
Just as rainbow nation is to our parents
Self-care and safe spaces are to us
The lies we must believe
To make sense of senseless violence
Self-identify
Intersectional feminism
Lived-experience
How telling it is that we need to say the same word twice
In moonlight black boys
Look blue
Feel blue
Are blue
In moonlight black boys
Look blue
Feel blue
Are blue
In moonlight black boys
In moonlight black boys
Look blue
Feel blue
Are blue
At new moon black boys
Find form
Find rhythm
Fit in
Renew
At midday black boys
Look free
Play free
On their land
Their stolen land
At dusk black boys
Are dancing dark
Form outlines
After dusk a black boy is outlined
Parents seek out their hooded figure in the dark
A flash of freezing thought
A cold truth
Your black boy did not make it through tonight
In one young eve
Your black boy is no more
At midnight these black boys
Become blue
Feel blue
Are blue
Are blue
Are blue
We are descendants of many things
Descending into nothing
We are descendants of many things
Descending into nothing
We are descendants of many things
Descending into nothing
We are descendants of many things
Descending into
