Amistad Poem

Filed under: Uncategorized — edinger at 8:22 am on Saturday, February 24, 2007

Four men when in a rice field seized me.

Leaving behind my wife and child.

It was the worst day of my life.

I was two weeks in traveling to Lomboko.

Who were those white ghosts putting me on the slave ship?

I was so tired and hungry I thought I might die.

Now I am in a jail in a strange land.

This jail is terrible. I can’t even think what ill happen to me.

I just want to leave this horrible place.

Will I ever be free?

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Comment by pamela weinberg

February 26, 2007 @ 4:47 pm

The sadness in the poem is truly palpable. I really enjoyed reading it.

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