imagine
imagine a people
totally severed
from their birth language
and tangible culture.
imagine a people
shipped to a new land
and coined sub-human
by those that control.
imagine a people
deprived of all schooling
then many years later
seen as hostile and brutish.
imagine a people
thank God all-mighty
free at last,
in word only.
imagine a people
free at last
subdued by discrimination,
imprisonment and redlining.
imagine a people
murdered by the law
because the freed people
don’t fit an accepted image.
imagine these people
overcoming adversity
and learning self-acceptance
outweighs anyone else’s.
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