Sing joy unto our Blackness

#SilentNoises ~knm

For the ancestors; for their sacrifice.

Singing a Joy unto our Blackness

Black History Month

After all the hustle
You choose to recognize me in a month
After building you up
With my blood as my water
My nudity laid bare for the world to stare
You choose to applaud me in a month
After suckling on your children
And rivers of blood running all over me
Raping my mother for her children to stare
You choose to acknowledge me in a month
The impudence and arrogance
Forget not the hand that fed you
Bible held high in your left
Blunt knife held low in your right
So when I looked to Him
You stabbed me in deep in my belly
You only wounded me for a second
Yet do I still ask
You talk about me in a month?
What you never took and can never have
My soul; my Identity; my story
All the seas and sands
All the synthetic and organic
Will never wash away your iniquities
I will be celebrated all year round
All year round my story will be told
All year round!

©kwasintemmensah 2019

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Published by #SilentNoises ~knm

Kwasi (First name rhymes with Crazy but he is not) Ntem-Mensah is a father and a husband. He is a mentor, a Fatherhood Consultant and a member of the Fatherhood Roundtable. Kwasi is currently the Fatherhood Initiative Coordinator working with ECHN-Family Development Center’s Healthy Families Healthy Babies program. He is the co-chair of ECHN’s Unity Collaborative where the work is focused on Diversity and Inclusion. Kwasi is a member of the Board of Education of Manchester. He also serves as a director of The Manchester Land Conservation Trust and is the Secretary for The Council of Ghanaian Associations in Connecticut. He is also on the CFSP Advisory Council. Kwasi does collaborative work with the DOC and DCF. He is the creator of ReadToMe and Celebrating Our Fathers events. Kwasi facilitates 24/7 Dads and Circle of Security parenting. He is the author of the anthology of poems and short story “A Silent Noisy Walk in My Mind” and publisher of “SilentNoises.org”. He is also a radio presenter at CMRadio, a Ghanaian radio station based in East Hartford and a member of AABAC, an advocacy association for people of color. Lastly, Kwasi is a wonderful community advocate that is eager to work with people all races, genders and socio-economic background

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