Slavery Poems

Absolute Rule

untamed masters, tame
their subjects, until they're tame 
enough to follow.

The humbling of a false saviour

If there is a god and he does exist 
No matter what he has to say it wouldn't mean a thing 
An apology is long overdue
But now it's far too late
You abandoned black people
And for that I feel for you nothing but hate

It begs the question of your intentions 
With the world with your actions

The song of the lost

The song of the lost 
Drowned out by the ghostly whispers
Begging to be freed 
To move through the afterlife like leaves on a tree
Free to be -
Sad for the black souls trapped in the waters used to escape 
A fate of becoming a slave 
Yet somehow contained in the waters of slavery
Forever encased in the

Life

#Life
Tour of trials and hostility, in this cave, life capture's my soul, hell prey's for my flesh, indoctrination waits in ambush for my mental GPS. With this God DIY tools, equiped to unearth parth's long consumed by creation and evolution...

from four cardinals of earth, horns of wisdom positions distressed and discareded abilities of mother nature.

Villanelle: A Serious Matter

"A Serious Matter" is a free-verse-ish or "loose" villanelle.

A Serious Matter
by Michael R. Burch

Listen, love, it’s a serious matter:
I love you better despite the fetter.
I love you madder than any hatter.

Now even though you’re my chains’ begetter
and keep me your slave with that braless sweater,
I love you better despite the fetter.

You say you’re afraid that

Did You Cry for Me? Note to a Slave Holder

Did you cry for me
when none but the crows
were both black and free
in the cotton rows?

When you saw me hung
did you cry for me
as my body swung 
from the lynching tree?

In the infantry,
combat knew no race
Did you cry for me
once I knew my place?

I've spent my last years,
as your property
I owe you no tears -
did

Human Speech versus Business Prison

Begin at treason acts of non allegiance 
Human Speech 
Business license is created to take from human voluntarily
Or otherwise 
Advertising is not free speech
Use of surplus against legislation 
Fraudulent bypass of poverty laws
Document theft from slaves
Slavery Acts

Calls from the job you needed
Connecting without the shove
Turning down the press
Finishing the letters in the heart shaped box
Quiting

Strapped

strapped to a chair while wires
pierced my skin, tested my knowledge 
Will this ever end? Come forth not 
My tongue tells all lies, as it splits
down the middle towards your
demise.


My eyes turned black my skin crawling 
With fear,  as my speech comes out
I feel endless fear. strap me down as
The room shakes, come forth

The tomb of a boy unknown

Unmarked grave
Epigraph reads slave
Not even dignified with a name
Just a ghost of a boy surrounded 
By tombs of those known
Tombs of those never alone
In a cemetery full of strangers
Even in death he is separated from his family

Who was he?
The world may never know 
His body buried just like his story unknown
He was born into shackles

An atheist on his deathbed

An atheist living soul was floating above on  deathbed,
because if he touched it, he would leave this world.

He let the pain out and screamed through his dying soul.

A guy who was once drenched in every bit of gold
comes to him and says:
“I want to make a compromise with your soul and body—
I will save

The UK has blood on its hands

Slavery solidified the UK's place in the world 
Earning recognition, power and control 
The foundation of its empire 
Built by slave labour

Stolen wealth sat in their banks
Invisible blood covers every coin and note
Hard earned black money
Given to the rich, white and upper class society
Spending our wealth
On buying more slaves
So they can sit and roll around

Slavery wasn't slavery

There's a man who I call DeSatan
From Florida to Sunshine State 
who said that slavery for Black folks in America 
was beneficial and great. 
they were taught skills on how to be 
better productive slaves 
and those beatings, rapes and lynchings 
was simply how white folks behave
no need for us to get bent out of

STANCE AT GETTYSBURG

Shenandoah cries
Voice of a Leader
Echoes of a Nation
Tomorrow only the beginning
The change needing a change
Soulful hope
Skies above in realize
Direction from Heaven
White House woes
Freedom, Wisdom and Rise
Bitterness through emotion
Far from the Liberty shores
Darkness plight
Wonder of the day, and the offspring of thought
Turnaround to oppose
No Slave shall be
Rebel no more
Freedom ways
Impact says
Pathway to a better life
No more

A child's first lynching

Dressed in their Sunday best
Toothy grins
Pristine shoes
Eyes sparkling with joy
A simple family picture
The epitome of innocence 
'Spick and span' as they would say

A nice family outing
Where you ask?
Church?
A family picnic?
Day trip?
No.

They dressed up in their Sunday best
To watch a black man succumb to a slow and labored death
To watch his long drawn out last breath
The

The missing posters that go missing

Streets littered with white paper sheets
Printed with the ink of black missing kids
Floating through the air desperate to find somebody who cares
Empty are the streets, just like their parents home
Awaiting the day they'll be reunited with their beloved children 

Authorities won't listen
Not one eye lid batted
They look the black parents in the eye feeling joy

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