4/20/2026

A tree has a memory

 A tree has a memory 


A tree has a memory…

It Remembers

The bodies 

Tight rope 

No breath 


Can’t forget death…


Do you know 

That tree is hauntin?

Holds a lot of

History of 

Blood, laughter 

Cries


An ugliest event

Like major cruel cookout 

Eatin parts of humans

Makin gifts out of evil


A tree has witnessed it all 

On earth 

This soil

Carry that pain while 

These pale skinned nations 

Covered their own tracks….


A tree doesn’t forget

A tree will always remember 

The trunk feels decades tragedy

Trauma spread its roots 

Now the branches are used to hangin 

Souls…melaninated souls 

Lost unfound 


A tree has a memory 

It reminisces the days 

Of lies from a white woman 

Without tears but a wicked smile 

On her face….


She puts a black man on a tree 

Cos he raped her 

When it’s a fib..

She wanted to kill him


And the tree listens 

I’m sure a tree 

Doesn’t wanna hang 

An innocent black man…


They force that big plant 

To hang him…


A tree has observed it all

Absorb all the death and hurt 

Cos of cruelty of white people

They wanna put us in our place

For existin…for being human…


Tree has that flashbacks 

of barbaric behaviors…


And if a tree can talk 

And say the truth 

You can’t shut it up

Even if you put a needle 

Or cut it down 

The tree will never stop 

Speakin facts…


Cos again, 

A tree has a memory,,,


✊🏿💯©️ Kai C. 4-20-25


Mama Nettie

Mama Nettie 


I’m tryin 

to google 

This elderly black woman 

Who hung the kkk on an 

Oak tree…

In Mississippi 

In the south 

I wonder if it’s really true 

Cos those white men

7 white men

Who killed her family 

On that very same tree…


She watched 

She watched 

Her husband 

Her sons 

On that tree…

There’s not a lot of 

Information 

But I bet this coldwater county 

Hid it so well 

Cos they don’t wanna admit 

That a black woman got justice in her hands…

They never wanna admit their wrongdoin…


I’m not sure how 

She done it 

I mean know how 

What about her bones?

Her arthritis?

Due to all this respect 

I admire her strength 

My shero…


I believe this story is 

Real to my soul 

Cos I knew black people had to fight 

Back against white folks durin Jim Crow

And we don’t know the fact…

I knew black people had to respond 

Their violence…and they gave them terror 

In the secret woods….

Some of them don’t follow those stupid ass 

Jim Crow law….


Even if 

It’s not a real story 

I’d still appreciate her as noble….

Cos there are so much white terror 

Everywhere that needed to be 

Shut down immediately….


We should have stories 

Like this, black people whoopin 

White people’s ass for a good reason….

Hang them or burn them 

As in response to 

Their brutality against us….

White folks ain’t nothin but 

Slaughter our bodies away 

Cos we exist…cos of their power…

It’s not superior…


Mama Nettie 

She had that sharp memory 

That shattered her world completely 

Details after details 

The horrors 

I don’t blame her 

Cos

Honestly 

She did the right thing..


Mama Nettie was like,

“Since you’re goin to lynch my family 

Ok I will lynch you right back 

On that same tree

I’ll make sure you can’t breathe for air 

Anymore.”

✊🏿💯©️Kai C. 4-20-26