JUXTAPOSED MIDDLE PASSAGE DOORS
Moments and thoughts on tribulation:
Too long to endure;
Too short not to brave;
One thing was for sure—
Better to have died free than lived a slave.
Yet others were made to survive.
Ships docked with half their stock.
Pity—those poor souls arrived—Alive;
Sold on the auction block!
Moments and thoughts on neo-colonial liberation:
Now the stilled, calm sea beckons the unbroken soul;
New horror stories from the Motherland wait to be told.
Tides of neo-wickedness ebb and flow her bleeding shores;
Our-story of ethnic-genocide remains behind his-story’s shut doors.