what was it like?
Being ripped away from
the only place you ever knew,
the place you grew up in, what you called home.
In a ship cramped between foreign people.
Bones, both yours and theirs, protruding,
digging into your sides.
Did this scare you?
How did it feel?
Your neck, ankles, wrists chained.
Your body binded to others
who suffered the same fear of this unkown.
Frozen, immobile, confined to this state,
Uncertainty lacing the air
Your lungs filling with dread
How did you breathe?
what was it like?
arriving somehwere new,
completely different and obscure
where you would be stripped of being yourself
where your name and beliefs would not matter
where you were judged by appearance
and your abilities.
Did you know this?
How did it feel?
Doing what they wanted
Having no control of your life
Being defenceless to them using you
Them placing their hands where they should not be
Sold as if you were an object
Treated like animals
Did that break you?
What was it like?
When they took them away
without even a second glance.
as if they werent your most prized possession.
as if your blood did not run through their veins
When he said the boy was not his
and refused to raise him
Did that hurt you?
How did it feel
To be considered a slave?