LAMENT FOR DARK PEOPLES

Langston Hughes 1902-67

I was a red man one time,

But the white men came.

I was a black man, too,

But the white man came.

They drove me out of the forest.

They took me away from the jungles.

I lost my trees.

I lost my silver moons.

Now they've caged me

In the circus of civilisation.

Now I herd with the many -

Caged in the circus of civilisation.

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