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Unblind Africanus

Melanin

Imagine absolute darkness

Through which your eyes could only see

Obscurity

The full light spectrum

Evaporated into a section

As the pineal gland pushes manifestations

And absorbs all light, hence we dark

Shinning obscurity

Enlightened divinity

From progenator to progeny

Kemetically embedded

Genetically perpetuated philosophy

So my nats contracted

And no lye can substitute for my heritage connected

Heat conducted

Sun rays absorbed

So we ain't hyphenated

But hyper-melanated

Multi-faceted metabolisms

Djembes determine the hearts rhythm

All deficiencies are mel-anomalies

The sounds of thoughts dissipate earthly tonalities

Enriching monotonous trivialities

Caught in the prism of our divining melanin

Solutions lie in sinking beyond the skin

Digging

Into multiple levels of interior lining

Reflected in the minds chemical combining

So we vegetarian carnivores

Unnatural reservoirs

For those lacking divining melanin

In the frailness of un-thick skin

Little do they know that our thickness of completion

Lies without and within

Carbon bonded to our melanin

Carbon bonded to our melanin.