Bound For the New World
We are chained together
Beneath the belly of
This cold dark slave ship
Drowning in this sea of humanity
Hundreds of captured slaves
Peeking through the wooden cracks
Praying for the slanted light
To touch and free their souls
This human cargo
Bound for the new world
Copyright © Gregory Golden | Year Posted 2009
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