Poetry from Jacques Fleury

Middle aged Black man in a black coat and sunglasses seated in front of a brick building with white windows. Pansies and flags decorate the house.
“Pictured in Photo: Jacques Fleury”

I am the Truth

Quiet, I’m not listening 

Just because you say 

Does not mean it’s true…

You don’t get to define me! 

My existence is my definition!

And by definition: I am the truth!

But you don’t see me;

So YOU be quiet, 

I’m not listening!

Just because you say

Does not mean it’s true…

I am the legacy of what came BEFORE you!

From the DNA of the Subsaharan Africans

Where scientists traced the birth of us humans!

Remember that we are ALL 99.9% the same!

The diaspora from Africa to Asia to Europa

And eventually to North America and South America,

Australia and Antarctica…

We are ALL from the MOTHERLand of AFRICA!

THAT is truth!

am that TRUTH! 

But you choose NOT to see me!

So you don’t get to define me based on a falsity!

Afro-Ancestral DNA already told you OUR story…

So Down with your Pseudo ideology of Supremacy

!

I refuse to give you the soot! 

For in the words of Gordon Lightfoot:

“I will never be set free as long as I’m the ghost you can’t see…”

Silhouetted figure leaping off into the unknown with hand and leg raised. Bushes and tree in the foreground, mountains ahead. Book is green and yellow with black text and title.
Jacques Fleury’s book You Are Enough: The Journey Towards Understanding Your Authentic Self

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self” & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… He has been published in prestigious publications such as Spirit of Change Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Litterateur Redefining World anthologies out of India, Poets Reading the News, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.–

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