Love Yourselves

Love yourselves If you love yourselves Nobody will try to put you on shelves So you can be sold like cats and cattles If you love yourselves Nobody will dare putting sagged saddles On your back Nobody will try to attack You or your look-alikes Nobody will use guns, tasers, and spikes To control your behaviors And everybody will come as saviors To defend your color, your lives, And your styles Loving yourselves Means respecting yourselves Where others cannot disrespect You, your gentle genre, your sect, Or your siblings If you love yourselves Nobody can put rings On your neck, chains And shackles on your ankles Nobody will dare to inflict so many pains And so much sufferings On your mother, father, aunts and uncles Black People, love yourselves Be good, be smart, and be nice Be proud, be strong and courteous So others can and will respect you So others won’t deface you So others won’t ridicule you So others won’t attack you Because all of us will have your back Be proud of being black Be proud of who you are Be smart, do not start the war Whoever starts it, will lose Some of you ought to stop acting like fools Cracked heads are not smart Drug addicts are indeed part Of the problems, they are not cool Most of them do not go to school They lie, cheat, steal, rape, kill, and murder They are the children of Lucifer Love yourselves Stay away from trouble and bad stuff Otherwise, your lives will be difficult and rough This message is directed to not only you, Brothers And Sisters, but also to the enemies and the perpetrators Love yourselves If you do love yourselves You don’t need to hate the others Who won’t be able to treat you like serfs.