Black: Deity’s color

Black: Deity’s color

Black shall be my hope

As it’s the color of the deity

I will never and never stop

Abiding to its authority.

An extraterrestrial beauty

Given for me a dignity

For mine pride and identity.

A divine entity of servitude

Of kindness love and negritude

As the nights lose value

To honor the days avenue

We live as such for you.

Thus black is my hope

A symbol of my destiny

And also your destiny

Which I sow but you harvest the crop.

My hope, that black hope.

Black is a symbol of patience

Patience that never lasts

Patience that lasts centuries after centuries.

Black is a promise and full trust

So mankind will never feel thirst

So mankind will never get hungry

‘cause blacks farm in slavery.

That twilight

Black light

Shall give new insight

An insight of civilization

And end to superstition.

As dark is everyone’s destiny

The color of soul’s journey.

Black is the divine treck

Which every one should take

As the final treck: black treck

Why black lives undermined

The color of the universe

The world’s yet undiscovered

The source of sight, circled by iris.

Addis Ababa University, 2000