Chris Chavers
A Poet’s Conversation In Black
A Poet’s Conversation in Black, is a poetry project that critically, implicitly, and explicitly discusses the journey of Black identity and Black self esteem within western -colonized society. The poetry project will have three stages that will analyze the impacts of racism in different parts of society and the feelings within Black people/my racial self esteem. The poetry will read as conversations and reflections of the relationship not only I have had with my Black identity and self esteem, but into similar experiences of Black people in this topic. Each poem is different but all encapsulates Blackness and Black racial self esteem. This project is a model of activism to radicalize and liberate the lived material of Black people. The world my people and I live in is where your race is the extension of your existence but it’s being exiled from the conversation.
This is my conversation in Black.
Dialogue Three: It’s just Me and You…
Black in blue
Paint me in all the world, point each brush stroke at each dot I could of been seen, in dark
through light is where I begin,
paint me black in blue,
mark me in the waters that run through the Nile, that shores in the Atlantic, that captures the Pacific, but still breathes in the creek,
let me drown in the merciful rain, let me enter the night light streets, and wash me in chalked concrete.
Paint your masterpiece of deception that you had to create, but you can’t erase Black in Blue.
It’s the two colors that hold the truth from the womb you come through darkness into light but the first color that bleeds, blends, shades, colors is Black not white.
Blue surrounds you, but blue, she lives in ole melanin me,
she awakes your skies and embroils your dreams.
We live through Black in Blue the two as one, as in one through, one in you.
I’m just Black baby in blue
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