Heavy

Michael Peterson

I've been told everything I write has that kinda 'heavy' sense to it
When you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders
The blessings and burden of family on your back
Guilt in your heart
A combination of children work finances and fear of being shot
All while being black
Your pen becomes exactly that
Heavy
As a black man in America it's difficult to keep a smile on our faces
We do it anyway
Sometimes carrying this skin is too heavy to bare
We do it anyway
They've only cared about our muscle but our struggle has become our strength
But who do we lean on when things get tough for us
Black men ain't taught to talk about it
My friends say I should write
Fellas say hit the weights
My family says pray
I am the holy trinity of therapy for black men
A Poet a Pastor & a personal trainer
Yet what I've learned about slam the gym and church
Are the pressures to be perfect and develop a praiseworthy body of work
I must get as close to 10 as possible
That's the score sets and commandments
But get crucified if the disciples don't believe in my work or word
So I work with the weight of the words I put in these bars before they snap
Because sometimes they heavy
As in the man that carries the sin
The hand that holds the pen
The vein that joy and pain are in
Black men ain't taught to talk about it
My people say write, pray or lift weights
But both the church and the gym come with books of Judges depending on how much is on the plate
People still in their Genesis think they can Chronicle my Revelations but don't know what I keep in Psalm helps me do Numbers and make an Exodus from these stressful Acts of life
I'm preachin yall
I've worked hard to build this muscle and this faith and still have trouble pressing off the pressure
Oftentimes I curl up in my pew and shrug it off
I Dip depression, push-up prayers and hope God heard me
What goes up must come down - a Burpee
Leaving me standing there
Hand shakin heart racing and sweatin
Second guessing if writing, prayer or working out is working out
I lift prayer - Push weights and pen poems
Hoping my bars are as hard as my arms
So I can protect myself from the lies scores and stones you throw
Black men ain't taught to talk about it
Judged when we do, judged when we write judged when we lift judged when we pray
Judged if we cry
I wipe my tears with the same cloth I'm cut from
That's why my skin so rough
When enough becomes enough is usually breakfast for us
Served a plate of pain
Life often scrambled and over-easy
Cup runeth over with stress
Too heavy for the tables so we hold that up too
The bible says the meek shall inherit the earth
But what about the bevy of burdens that come with it
Black men ain't taught to talk about it
My pen turns spotter to help release this gift
But if the poem don't make you feel resurrected, call it a dead-lift
You welcome me to the church the gym and the slam
Say come as I am
It's a judgment free zone
It ain't about the points it's about the poem
But I can't even write one without being judged, oftentimes by myself
I ain't never been taught to talk about it just told to hide the heavy
We wear it so you don't have to
We carry it so you don't have to
In the name of the poet the pastor and personal trainer
We pray A man is strong enough to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders
Ain't a scale that can measure that
The expectation is to gain faith lose weight and replace this pain with poetry
The pen has been my support beam
It keeps me upright - row
Chin up so the world can't see me frown
If a black man falls in the forest does his trauma make a sound
Since the beginning of time the black man has always had to pick things up
Never realizing how much it weighs us down
We physically lose weight but everyday we put on pounds
But I've learned to accept that
Heavy
Will always be the head that wears the crown

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