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our faces all covered with sweat, as y'all be yellin’ at us with threats, our hands covered with cuts and blood, while our arms and feet, be caked with mud every day, we be prayin’ to god for our freedom to come, ignoring all y’all sayin’ that we were born scums, someday imma finally leave this place cuz’ them folks ‘round here be claiming that black ain’t no race all y’all folks be hootin while callin’ my folks ******* while y’all be sittin there rifle in hand, finger on the trigger y’all whipped us tearin’ our families apart but my ma always be sayin’ that things like kindness comes from deep down in our hearts i kneel strugglin to breathe as you chain my neck, and hands but y’all push me to the ground again as imma’ tryin’ to stand i reckon myself i ain’t gonna give up now as all y’all ruin the fields we plough some know what life is like without the cuffs and chains but the feeling feeling of freedom is never the same and some that deserve it most never leave and die and i know that though their body is gone their spirit always survives
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Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020 at 2:10 PM UTC
Slavery (Version #2)
our faces all covered with sweat, as y'all be yellin’ at us with threats, our hands covered with cuts and blood, while our arms and feet, be caked with mud every day, we be prayin’ to god for our freedom to come, ignoring all y’all sayin’ that we were born scums, someday imma finally leave this place cuz’ them folks ‘round here be claiming that black ain’t no race all y’all folks be hootin while callin’ my folks ******* while y’all be sittin there rifle in hand, finger on the trigger y’all whipped us tearin’ our families apart but my ma always be sayin’ that things like kindness comes from deep down in our hearts i kneel strugglin to breathe as you chain my neck, and hands but y’all push me to the ground again as imma’ tryin’ to stand i reckon myself i ain’t gonna give up now as all y’all ruin the fields we plough some know what life is like without the cuffs and chains but the feeling feeling of freedom is never the same and some that deserve it most never leave and die and i know that though their body is gone their spirit always survives
Since a lot of BLM events have been going on... I felt it right to share the new version of this poem.
#black#slavery#2020#blm#protest#abuse#chains#hate#race#hurt
Indigosourus_Rex
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18/F/Lost somewhere in space.
Nov 20, 2020
Nov 20, 2020 at 2:10 PM UTC
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