Writing - Benjamin Zephaniah RIP

 The world has just lost an astounding literary mind who was brilliant with words and will leave an amazing legacy as a result. 

No Problem

I am not de problem

But I bare de brunt

Of silly playground taunts

An racist stunts,

I am not de problem

I am a born academic

But dey got me on de run

Now I am branded athletic,

I am not de problem

If yu give I a chance

I can teach yu of Timbuktu

I can do more dan dance,

I am not de problem

I greet yu wid a smile

Yu put me in a pigeon hole

But I a versatile.

These conditions may affect me

As I get older,

An I am positively sure

I have no chips on me shoulders,

Black is not de problem

Mother country get it right,

An just for de record,

Sum of me best friends are white

God Bless