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Poetry, A black man's book, ( Diary )

Updated on May 7, 2014
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I am a writer of poetry and fiction. I especially love flash fiction. My name is Ruby, and I live in Southern Illinois. I am a retired R.N.

They ' ain't ever ' gona break my spirit.

I watched a documentary on TV, relaying the story of Africans being brought to America, schackled and used as forced labor in the 18th. century. This is one man's story.


I'm on a ship sailing away from the only home i'd ever known, Africa

I was one of a hundred captured, shackled together and put down in a hole on the ship to row toward a place called America

I heard the white man say, " row you bastard row

We rowed as fast as we could

Lord so hot down here below

The white man stood over us cursin'

Whippn' our backs if we ' was too slow

So we rowed real fast with all our might

Our childrn' off to the right

In a room where there ' ain't no light

I see women cryin'. I see grown men shamed and full of fright

I feel the whip a snappin' as we tried our best to rest

I see fear

I see proud men's puffed- up chest

They ' ain't ever ' gonna break our spirit's so we rowed faster and faster

Sweat pourin'

As we say, " Yer Sir Master "

We ' ain't ' gonna quit rowin' I hear a young man say

Our families are ' gona need us

When we get there someday

The white man with the big house came to look us over when we finally reached shore

I knew because i was big and strong

I'd be worth a whole lot more

I hear one man say, " I'll pay top dollar for that muscled young Buck, looks as strong as a dragon

I saw a young beautiful girl cryin'

When the old man shoved her in his wagon

Our childrn' was sold to the highest bidder

Choosin' the strongest

What the man called the best from the litter

I ' ain't got no more time for writen' in this here book

Prayin' someone someday will read it and know we made it, even learned to read and write

Only the Lord knows just how many souls it took

Before the white man saw the light.



I deleted this hub months ago, after reading it this morning i would like to replubish it again. I have many new followers who may want to read this story.

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