Get The Facts Straight

Whole Picture Poetry

I truly don’t care how I look to anyone

I simply want what’s owed to me

Fighting for YOUR belongings don’t make YOU unstable

So why would YOU say that about ME?

Protection of my human rights

The money I earned

My education credentials

Credit and royalties

For all I accomplished, and created

Of course I should be demanding payment

As well as recognition

IT BELONGS TO ME!

Whatever I earned on any contract

Whatever profit was made off of my work

BELONGS TO ME!

I don’t care what liar told you

They were allowed to take it!

Whatever was promised in the form of a contract

IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO PAY!

Whatever was taken, who, what, where, when

IT’S LONG PAST TIME TO PAY!

There is no excuse for such behavor

I don’t care how terrified you predators are of consequences!

If I made it

If I created it and you stole it

The value of it’s worth

Plus interest

Belongs to me

But I’m a “gold-digger” for saying such things???

No!

The “gold-diggers” are the ones stealing

Lying, scheming, selling out for a handout

Being stolen from MY property!

If I wrote it and it was stolen

Whomever stole it

Owes me

If it’s mine and you have it without my permission

Pay me or return it

That simple

But you say I’m “crazy” for saying such things?

I would be crazy if I didn’t!

If I did the work

And you refused to pay

You still owe me!

Don’t try to act like the victim

Now that I am drawing attention

To the predation you practice

Like it’s a game!

I don’t care what lie or scheme you came up with

To hide what you did

You think I’m going to stop fighting

THEN YOU ARE CRAZY!

I’m not begging for anything

I’M DEMANDING WHAT IS OWED TO ME!

I’m demanding payment

For what I am legally entitled to

Not what belongs to anyone else

Or what someone else did

If you stole it

It’s not yours

So why is this an argument

Instead of you being human

Reasonable

Intelligent

Honest

You instead block all access

From getting anything

Even earning a new living

Or access to anything financial

That would allow me to take care of my children

But you want me to be silent

And lay down

So you can walk all over me!

NO!

I WILL NEVER BOW DOWN!

RESISTENCE IS FUTILE!

JUST GO AHEAD AND PAY ME WHAT YOU OWE ME!

How is it that I’m “lazy”

When I spend night and day trying to break free

From your vice grip

Attempting to get around your schemes

Why do I have to work so hard

Still not getting paid?

Just to access what belongs to me?

A lazy person sits and waits for life to happen

Never doing or accomplishing anything

I’ve accomplished so much over the years

I can’t even remember how much I have forgotten!

If I’m lying

Why all the effort to silence me?

Everything I do changes things!

But you won’t keep me hidden for ever

I’m going to keep pushing

Until you pay me what you owe me!

You can’t create change doing nothing

That only happens when you work hard

Going against the grain

I’ve done so much in this world

Most people will never know

Even at the highest levels of classification

Yet I’m supposed to remain a “hidden figure”

In impoverishment

Because racists are afraid of the diversity of Black skin?

Or the power within a human

Who was born with a vagina

Even if she was born into impoverishment

All those things terrify the weakest of minds

I truly could not care less!

Honor my contract

Pay me what I’m owed

Then there would be no need to continue any communication!

You think I should bow down

Because pedophiles don’t want to be held accountable

SMH

I don’t care what you think

Particularly if your thinking is like that!

Just because someone said I was crazy

Doesn’t mean that there is truth to it

But you prove yourself so

By doing such insane things!

Covert or out in the open!

Pay me what I’m owed

Then you won’t have to complain about my nagging

Being so worried about me

“Living off the government!”

Paying people exorbitant amounts of money

To keep me trapped in this system

SMH

You’re not worried about the crimes committed against me

Only my demand for my property to be returned

SMH

DISGUSTING!

I won’t let up

Not even after you fall into your grave

The only option is to pay ME what I’m owed

Balance the scales

Or the Black Box keeps spilling every little single detail

Wasn’t that the deal made?

“Your money is safe

When your contract is not honored

Do these things…..”

The White House U.S. Department of State President Joe Biden

UN Women UN Human Rights Amnesty International USA Library of Congress