I am not here to break you
I will not slash you with my tongue
It is my duty to be there when you have challenges you have to overcome
I will not be let you be a sperm donor
No brother
I will not reduce you significance to a concept held by a plantation owner
I will not accept another baby daddy with no sense of responsibility riding in a souped up caddie
I will help you grow into a father
Be all you can be
Even though your dad was not much of a martyr
I will not let you continue to go to jail
Gavels hitting benches sound like black males for sale
I will not feed into the down low conspiracy
It feels like a plot to build more blocks between you and me
You see what I’m trying to say is
I cant give up on you
Not just because we share the same hue
but because our spirits our from the same place
Our dna connected to create a whole entire race
In the beginning it was me and you
I Auset and you Ausar
Brother
You are a shining star
I know you may have your doubts because I’ve failed you in the past
but we're both victims
our short comings don’t have very much contrast
So like I said before
I am not here to break you
I will not slash you with my tongue
If you need me to
I will be your iron lung
Breathe for you
But I cant lead without you
Balance is what we need
So our seeds don’t bleed as they grow
We need not to be our own Jim Crow
I need you understand what I mean when I ask you to be man
I’m not talking about some bodies else's game plan
Not concepts born of a male chauvinist patriarchal systems
Fit for the other him
Brother you're a shining star, no matter who you are
So you will understand that I can not let you continue to beat me
Treat me like a pile of feces
Let you fill my womb with disease
And you should understand that because you're that shining star
I can not let you die from prostate cancer
I’m not looking for some evasive answer
Brother it is what it is
But I’m here to remind you there are so many reasons to live
You have so much to give
I refuse to let you die
At this point the only word I want to hear is "TRY"
So as I said before
I am not here to break you
I will not slash you with my tongue
It is my duty to be there when you have challenges you have to overcome

Nzingah Oniwosan 2006 ©