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Unwanted Gifts

March 25, 2014
By ZoeZoe PLATINUM, Westown, New Plymouth 4310, Other
ZoeZoe PLATINUM, Westown, New Plymouth 4310, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song" -Maya Angelou


A huge frightening world
of white men.
America.

Nothing’s the same anymore,
Not the moon,
Not the stars,
Not us.

The white men
change us.
Tame us and beat us,
like we are their
animals,
their slaves.

No real doctors for us.
Devils,
hidden in doctor’s clothes.
Who let boiling tar
heal whip lash.

We have but one thing
To focus on
now,
survival.

Whoever knew
Survival is so
Hard?

They treat us
Like savages.
Who are they
to say that?
We are no less
civil than those white men.

They torment us,
sell us,
work us to the sky.
We never deserved that.
But we will
fight back.
And win.


The author's comments:
I wrote this after watching some of "Roots" and reading "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson.

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