One Leg Boy

Standing on one leg With spit running down my face My fist balled up with anger and shame They did not care to much for my emotions. Although, a little white girl smiled at me From a window in a saloon. She was the daughter to the Sheriff of our town Beautiful young but white. I ugly young and black We just don't mix boy, is what the town screamed in my face Throwing rocks and pouring buckets of horse piss on my head I would ask questions in my head whispering Why not? Is love colorful? or colored one color? As my leg grew tired so did my wanting to live I started to cry and the town started to laugh They whispered in my ear. Feeling lonely boy? I couldn't speak the hot sun dried out my body Then I finally fell to both blacken knee's Then she came. The beautiful young white girl. She said little words But her crying eyes watered my dry body I stood back up on my one leg And my chain up hands reaching to hold her Whip and whip is what I felt next The sting of the whip from her father The towns sheriff. Whip and whip and whip She was taken away and told To not leave her room again But she could watch the boy Die alone for wanting to love her She cried harder as they whipped me more. I've been standing on this wooden block For 10 hours and the sun hasn't let up Nor did the town. The rope like hoop Was thrown at my feet. And a voice spoke Time to meet the devil boy. I closed my eyes I begin to dream standing on my one leg. I dreamed of her How we would kiss behind thick trees How we would hold hands when the town was sleeping And how she would kiss my one leg giving it a blessing She adored me lack of my leg and skin tone As the rope caress my neck. I kept my eyes closed The crowed of the town chanted die boy One leg monster. Black and white don't mix. I kept my eyes closed and begin to do something I never done. I prayed to her I said in prayer to her. My white angel I will always be with you. Cry for me only today And bottle memories forever This world isn't for me But the next world will be for us both I wait for you standing this time on both legs. I love you.