Best Backbones Poems
Backbones RisingI saw them,
there were so many
young and old
sick and broken
a sea of black bodies
hunched over
and shuffling through
a thick dense fog
of worry and bewilderment
their heads bobbed in unison
wafting and dipping
a learned behavior of survival
unable to carry anything with them
but the truth
their value had been...
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Categories:
backbones, america, black african american,
Form:
Free verse