A STORY OF THE AMRICAN CIVAL WAR
It seams only fair to confess I'm black ,And yes , proud to be , ''black ''
From Kenya , my ancestors came from ,
Tho to you I'm what you'd call
''white '' ,
My pigment , some what diluted ,
My hair , strait , kind off ,
How I wish it was curly , like my family
From Kenya is ,
I have to confess , a believer in a God ,
Any God or God's , I aint ,
Saw thro that lie , many years ago ,
I'm a humanist ( agnostic ) ,
A believer in humanity , in yours , and
Mine ,
So when I hear or read of raicesim ,
I kinder have to come out of the closet ,
Take a stand , 'cos them racist attack me
And my family , my friend's ,
My some of my family were slaves ,
Some in the west Indies , others , in
America ,
They were freed , some , in the 1860's ,
Members of my family , joined ,
The Fivety-fourth Massachusetts Coloured Regiment ,
Led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw ,
Family members died beside Shaw ,
Rolled , tumbling in to a pit of the dead ,
Shaw among them , his mum in a letter said ,
''I'm so proud my son lays with such brave men''
As am I so proud my family fault to be free and
Died in Dixie.
above , is but a story ,
Below is between the lines;
I just had too confess, I'm happen to be , ivory ,
Yet , brown ,
Yet , yellow ,
Yet , red ,
yet , albino ,
In short , I am YOU!
Ken D Williams ( THE DYSLEXIC POET )
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Poetry by ken d williams
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Written on 2008-05-15 at 21:32
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