identity crisis?
the colonised persona
you aspire towards their ambitions and goals/ like they'll make you superior because in your mindset you're inferior/
you think you want to become like them/ be liberated in their illusionary world.
then you take a step forward with them and another one too/ steps towards supposed enlightenment; towards them/
when all you've done is forsaken the true enlightment.
a year or two later/maybe never/ all dependant on the will of the Almighty/
when you are guided/ if you are guided/ and when you reflect in hindsight/
you realise all you were attempting to be
was a colonised persona/
Frantz Fanon in his famous analysis of colonialism has brought out the condition of colonised minds.
"Those who internalise the colonial mentality", writes Fanon, " suffer a systematic negation of personhood.
Colonialism forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly. 'In reality who am I?'
The defensive attitude created by this violent bringing together of the colonised man and the colonial system
form themselves into a structure which then reveals the colonised personality,".1
http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/wscfap/arms1974/Regl_womens_prog/Community%20of%20Women%20and%20Men/community%20of%20women%20and%20men.htm
