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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 © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 12/12/2009 8:54:00 PM
Congragulations on your writing, Gregory, well done.
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