A Poem Titled "Slave Ship"
October 22, 2019
Slave Ships
I have been fought and harassed
By people already so abused
Even the government would be attacked if their stories hit the news
Have you ever read the stories of men pulled apart tied together by two horses?
I have been fought and harassed by bodies that have lived as corpses
I can tell who his here and who has chosen to die
By the stories that they tell and the way they ask why
I have been fought and harassed
Because I know how to give a NO
And I know how to learn along the way
Regardless of what story is told
I have been fought and harassed
By people who do not know what their behavior said
They have no understanding of boundaries
They sleep with people who would leave them for dead
They travel down an incestuous path
From exposure to the behaviors of those who survive cramped in ships
Some of those are not marriages
They are just people who were conjoined together by the hips
