He is Black and He is African 

He is African and he is marginalized 

He is black and disdainfully beheld by haughty eyes.

He migrates because his home is uninhabitable 

He migrates because he is oppressed.

Oppressed by his own kith and kin in the black skin who lord it over him as political overlords and bigwigs.

He is oppressed by European neo-colonialists and the Asian hegemon.

The European neo-colonialist, the Asian hegemon and his own repressive kith and kin in the black skin have one thing in common;

they are complicit in the scheme of his enduring and lasting neediness and destitution.

He is herded by destitution to the middle east, where he is treated like scum by his semitic abuser.

He is shepherded by penury to the far-east, where he is superciliously sized up by haughty Oriental eyes.

He is driven by indigence to continental Europe, where rights are upheld, but he is still relegated to the depths as a famished black man in dire need of the luxuriant and lush European pastoral green.

He is guided by his empty stomach to uncle Sam’s North America, where Mr. Levy alleges he is a savage for eating dogs and pet cats.

He is steered within the continent, to his black African neighbours, especially to the deep south, where he is derogatively branded ‘kwerekwere.’

His African brothers of the much lighter skin tone, to the far north of the continent are snobbish, and scarcely identify with him.

He is black African, and he is between the proverbial “Devil and the deep blue sea.”

He is black African, and he carries the dark skin as a social stigma within and without his own continental home.

He is a minority amongst minorities,

Only heaven can be his only realm of solace.

Joseph C Ogbonna is a widely published poet. Some of his works have been published by Spillwords Press, Synchronized Chaos, Micromance, Written Tales, North of Oxford, Waxpoetry, Orenaug mountain publishing, Borderless journal, Double Speak, All Your Poems, All Your Stories, Flowersong press, Soulful valley publishing, Clarendon publications, poetrysoup and a few other magazines and anthologies.

He is also a winner of three international weekly poetry contests. He was a high school teacher, with a major in history. He lives in Enugu, Nigeria.