FOUR WALLS

PROUDFLESH: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness

ISSN: 1543-0855

Issue 5 (2007)

FOUR WALLS

Native Alien

Shackles, cuffs, links, chains

Social drugs numbing brains

Poisoning potential inhibiting change

Four walls closin’ in

Landlords, administration, bosses, wardens

Pigs, prosecuters, masta, foremans

Fake allies actin’ foreign

Four walls closin’ in

Projects, cubicles, classes, cells

Plantation, corporations, organizational hell

Experienced predecessors metaphysically tell

Four walls closin’ in

Taking orders almost always

Straight path faking praise

Hopeful for better days

Four walls closin’ in

Desperate measures taking hold

Bills, debt, dough unfolds

Unload work, servicing hope

Four walls closin’ in

Servin’ dope, servin’ feigns

Servin’ them, servin’ me

Servin’ you, raise zombies

Four walls closin’ in

Phony teachers pushin’ lies

T.V programs that hypnotize

Upholdin’ your psycho. demise

Four walls closin’ in

Orange jumpsuits, cuffed inside

Bareback, chained, whipped outside

Cheap labor to capitalize

Four walls closin’ in

But I came back with my hammer to bust through the slammer

To tear down these walls and search for the answers

To try to defy confinement

To fly to and pry through the tyrants

I try to get by while they firin’

But them four walls, they keep closin’ in

Hope forever kept alive

People, Masses, Wakening, Arise

Pain eventually will subside

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Four walls closin’ in

Citation Format:

Native Alien. “Four Walls,” PROUDFLESH: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness: Issue 5, 2007