Tuesday 4 June 2013

Poetry day/ Slave Poem Rebekah Heaton

In honor of Emmline



Free like a bird
Dark like a candles room no hope lots of fears
What a curse to be that color
curls swirl around me like an octopus in the sea
slender hands cling onto the bar that will change my life

Golden Charcoal birds
free to roam the skies
hope for all of us
that maybe one day we will be
free like a bird

Hard mean jeering face
stares hungrily at me
oh how I hate my curls
they are a burden to me
crow you are lucky you fly away free

Down goes the gavel
"sold to the man in the red shirt"
the dirty hard man
who stares so much at me
dread despair fear so much fear
swirl around me
help god, if there is one


Golden Charcoal birds
free to roam the skies
hope for all of us
that maybe one day we will be
free like a bird