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Rated: · Poetry · Dark · #1722006
Poem about blacks in slavery and their struggle in America
“Curse of Cain”
Cursed by God
Hidden Hebrew slaves
Choke-chained and bound

The Negro race…
Chattel beast of beasts
Tools for trade
Sold, bought, and leased

Bucked and chucked
They died in vain…
Float and Sunk
In an ocean grave

Hauled nude ashore
Loads sold away
Lymph manly pride…
Poked, groped and weighed

Hearts stripped of God
Heads forced to hate
  Back’s Potent flog
Slashed, soaking frames

Field Negros picked
House Negros cleaned,
Smart Negros railed,
Hidden roads they trailed

Girls caught and killed
Boys chased and hung
Wide Bloody fields
Grave civil wrongs….

New Freedoms won
“Colored people” ban
Low Separate wage
Fair-pay demands

New times for change
New change for crime
Drugs, Streets, and gangs
Dope, Crack, and “Lines”

Trapped, booked, and jailed
Twenty years-to life
New modern slaves
Old past-time hype

Blacks sing and dance
Laugh, cuss, and cry
Life’s tilted scale
Dark Souls despised

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