When Freedom Reins, Rings, & Reigns
Accountability Poetry
Be Afraid!
If you abused me
Put me in a hamstring
Took my childhood innocence
Bound me in chains
If you took my money
My education credentials
My credit
My children
If you took credit for my work
Or blocked me from getting credit
If you took anything from me
My identity
My family
Anything
You should be afraid
I’m not holding back
I’m not covering up your deeds
I’m not lying for you
I’m not minimizing
I’m not apologizing for you
I’m not excusing depravity
I’m not going to stop being me
To make you comfortable
Because YOU are afraid
Of accountability
You should have done the work
To make yourself a better human being
Just like you forced me
In isolation
In poverty
In degradation
After much slandering
In solitude
With no possibility of escape
Decade after decade
While you profited from my work
As well as my suffering
I will not bow down to you
You mistake me
Apparently you have been for some time
That’s why my wholeness and wellness
Makes you afraid
You thought you could abuse me to extinction
To force my compliance and obedience
To force my silence
To force my compliance
To force me to become what I hate
Instead I maintain my integrity
Now you can’t get the truth out of your head
You want to force me to obey your cognitive dissonance
SMH
Not today Satan
Not now
Not ever!
That’s dead!
It’s over!
I survived it
All of it
Every thorn
Every thistle
Every weapon
Every scorpion
Every lie
Every assault
Every attack
Every “mishap”
Every “coincidence”
Every car accident
Every rape
Every murder attempt
Every kidnapping
Every theft
I survived it all
It’s all dead
I survived it all
You can’t put me back in the box again!
I’m not changing the me I became
To save your thin skin
From your own madness
Go get some therapy
Try being honest
Return what you stole from me
Make amends
Stop preying women and children
Then maybe you won’t be so haunted
I’m not the problem here simply because I am honest
You are sick
You have problems
You create problems
DEAL WITH IT!
