Natasha McGee Poems

I think of times when my parents use to say
They have to pick cotton in the field each and every day
They would tell me how it made them feel
To know how race in the south back some years
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You do all you can, to make it on your own
And you need someone, will feeling all along
God will bring you through the storm and the rain
Just keep you head up high, and the sun will shine again
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To know the fear of a master
To know the wihip in hand
To feel the lashes coming
Not able to stand
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I HEARD THE NEWS
YOU WERE FEELING DOWN
I WANTED TO COME SEE YOU
AND STAY AWHILE
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Our life experiences aren't the same.
We have our own personalites
And that's o.k.
But when that image has been changed.
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I cried over you day and night
Wondering if my love wasn't right
I was broken-hearted over you
Even before you said were through
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I PACE MYSELF, FOR THE TURN
THEIR'S STILL SO MUCH, I HAVEN'T LEARNED
AND YET I THINK TO MYSELF
OF WHAT COULD BE?
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Thinking of times I would say what's cooking everyday
It's an assortment of goodie things
Chocolate, pies and banana pudding
Enough food and that's Mama's cooking
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The tears I cry is a voice unheard
And still I try to speak a word
When days, weeks, and months go by
And still I ask God-Why?
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I think at times where would I be
If it hadn' been for humanity
I think at times the word before me
And to know that it has a long way to be free
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