All in the Mind

All in the Mind It is all in the mind

Now the chains have gone

And ships cease to moor It’s all in the mind

Cos yesterday effects tomorrow too

It’s all in the mind

Embedded deep within our roots It’s all in the mind

We are here now Due to our ancestor’s wounds

I stand amongst inspired speakers

From a world different to mine

Holding a thought that where I’m from, my peers

Are still lost amongst slavery vines

See my peers fight to blame the white man

Fight for the wrong war

But a soul without its history Is a soul without a course

See it seems that from years back

We’ve been happy to hate our own

From overseers, to gun providers

This hate has slowly grown

And as we fight to promote change

Our fight is barely known

To that black boy on the corner

Who emerged from a broken home

See I’ve sat in police cells

Fought many pointless fights

Been that Black boy on the corner

Hooded up, you’re all fear at night

I’ve been branded a thug, represented stereotypes

Though I knew throughout it all

I was fighting the wrong fight

See I knew my true identity, knew of the wealth I held

So before I lost my way

I took a deep look within myself

But who will heal that black boy

With shackles around his mind

Who will be that role model that’s so hard for us to find

And who shall teach his mother

What she must teach her next

And who shall wipe her scalding tears

Her tears of deep regret

For she gave birth to a future father

Who can barely love himself

So how will he love his children

When their ship sets sail

Will they become that black boy

Who has grown to hate himself

Or that black girl that needs sex

To feel any love of self I ask who will heal our people

Before they sink at sea

As I stand amongst inspired speakers

Who I hope, feel what I see

by Onome – 17yrs