Yo No Entiendo (I don't understand) for Mandela and Rivera

God...Friends...random people on the street...
I'm 19 years old in 2012...
please help me to understand some words like Freedom and Liberty
out of bondage independently
no longer controlled, how we choose to be
is too often and overwhelmingly interrupted by the powers
I see that systematically enforce laws that don't serve we...our society/community
I heard that before Nelson Mandela and after Oscar Lopez Rivera...
You and me...then and now...locked up or beat down...ignored...
treated less than human...in the hole-no-light...save my soul...I'm only 19...
this isn't justice, it's trickery...seditious conspiracy?  Really...
Ay...ahhh Dios Aidame a entiendo words like la Libertad y Independencia
as I stand here with those who say everything that you're thinking...
when did it become a crime to love one's home
and the preservation of that home...tell me again,
mi besinos say I'm American...don't you know...but I'm still not clear...
is it what he said...who he led or a nations fear...
I'm 19 years old in 2012 y yo no entiendo

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman

Conversation piece: Big Plastic Ring

There are letters of the alphabet floating around in my head
hair follicles string a to z splendidly into words of clarity
as new audience peers at me through the cracked door
eyes sore from looking so hard and so long...
...what is she doing and what's with that big plastic ring?
Ha! Before we go any further audience, let me say this one thing...
...come here...yea come on in...I see you, yes come on in
listen, this is my notebook and this is my pen...I write

by Shonnese C.L. Coleman