Brotha

Brotha.... You are chocolate You are gold You are dark liquor and kunyaza You are the yuruba language You are igbo educated You are Mandingo

Brotha... You are morning coffee In it's natural brewery Strong and necessary With health benefits And yes you fit perfectly

Brotha... You are poetry in cafesbrown sugar molasses You are a Cuban cigar with an African name A walking Dashiki You are a griot with gray ministry

Brotha... You are soul food collard greens A black pepper cayenne pepper mix Hot water cornbread Black eyed peas You are gumbo and hip-hop together Blues with beer

Brotha... You are blackberry, elderberry, Burberry and blueberry You I marry For you, I, a sista carry your lineage with my dignity You carry your dignity with your identity As God's image

Brotha ... You are the ancestors ritual You are earth, air, fire and water You are safari built and trained You are black black, black, blue black Purple, You are indigo

Brotha... You are a Rasta dreadlock You are a pyramids spine A congo mansa

Brotha... I salute you

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