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“Unheard Cries” (Exodus)

I sit upon the dirt of your ancestral grave    
Thy hallow grounds where stories for your lineage time have paved    
As an observer of life, I will never understand    
How slavery, dividing the falling generation of child, women, and man    
Chained minds dissuaded to read and slow to learn    
How the Jim Crow era deterred    
Then the civil rights movement manifested, society watched as sheets burned    
    

Written by SweetKittyCat5
Published | Edited 7th Dec 2023
Author's Note
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Vinoba Bhave
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