Gunshots

A conversation and commentary with Katlen Bush on the poem written in 2013 called Gunshots, check out the video conversation below.

Gunshots - by Latoya Francis

Gunshots hear it ring from the bottom sky

Gunshots as a result maddas left a cry

Gunshots the status quo it a dead tonight

Gunshots fi wi freedom wi freedom fight

This has neva been fair fairness wi nuh know

Dem tek wi life situation and tun it in a show
Reality them say when a script them know

Wi a live di hard life cause a dat alone wi know

Kings from the East now slaves of the west

Them say wi a baboon wi di human dem pet

Dog have more right while we stay blind

Buy them expensive suit and sell dem drugs suh dem can recline

Money making while wi still dirt poor

Train wi fi killa wi one a nedda so wi a settle di score

Knowledge is power so we learn to endure

This race wi must win wi haffi reclaim wi shores

Gunshots hear it ring from the bottom sky

Gunshots as a result maddas left a cry

Gunshots the status quo it a dead tonight

Gunshots fi wi freedom wi freedom fight

The dawn of new day a new day has dawn

No longer will wi sit by the wayside and mourn

We are the change we have long to see

Wi fighting a fight that is mental you see

Inna da war ya da only grenade is truth and love

Wid wi tank of knowledge wi a lay seize to the grudge

AKs lined with liberation to the new age

SLRS of hope pave the way for today

We must know where we are coming from and to where we go

The story has been rewritten by a cast of no shows

This war must be fought rivers of blood have been spilled

Let us fight for freedom of our mind with the freedom of our will

Gunshots hear it ring from the bottom sky

Gunshots as a result maddas left a cry

Gunshots the status quo it a dead tonight

Gunshots fi wi freedom wi freedom fight

Written in June 2013.