Too dumb to see

Did it
As you set out
Too dumb to see
“Just enjoy the journey”
Really meant
-that’s all you get –

Never allowed to arrive
Unless scape goat needed.

Too dumb to understand
We measured productivity
Built our own chains
Believed the progress
Better to come
-just not for us!

Ghost ridden* 
Those stories
Heavy histories
Too dumb to see
Our existence here
Wounded with the roots of that**

NB W 24

* For some reason my brain almost always replaces gaslighting with ghost riding

** Beyonce and Jay-Z, IDRIS “American Gangster”