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Langston Hughes
March 12, 2013
Black is beauty
even if you don’t agree
Black is resilience
Hughes would accede
black as night he was hated upon
“sometimes the road is hot with the son”
In public he’d control his tongue
but “Harlem Renaissance” held
his disdain and pain
he filled the pages with truth
He tried to fit in with all the others
but they judged him
for his skin color
but he was the one who showed the way
for the strong loud voices to be heard today
He had to grown without a father
he had to learn without a mother
but that did not stop him
as determined as me he came to be
an excellent source of resilience
© Jamie B., Fairport, NY
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