Look Out, Look In
Look out, look in!
They’re watching
Watching and waiting
Checking their traps
The traps they have set
Yes!
Their traps have been set
with you in mind
You see their cages filled with people who look just like you?
Yes!
But do you see their traps?
Look out, look out!
Because their traps have been reset
In hopes to capture you again
Yes, they threw you back out into those trap spots
but are your eyes now free enough to see their traps?
Their bait?
Or the hooks hidden therein?
Look out, look In!
For their traps have been hidden
Inside the depths of our minds
In those mind sets that have us hooked on looking out
Instead of looking in
So, look in, look in!
Cause the slave catchers are outside watching…
Waiting…
For you to bite the bait
Again…
© 2021 by Calvin Edwards
Calvin Edwards AKA James Lee is an established writer, poet and author. Calvin’s works have appeared in such periodicals as African Voices Magazine, San Francisco Bay View: National Black Newspaper and 50BOLD.com. He also penned his first book, Whispers in The Mind of a Ghetto Child: Poetic Writings and is in the process of completing his second book, Echoes in the Mind of a Ghetto Child: Black History Repeats Itself. You can find Edwards’ creations and artwork at Etsy and on Instagram.
