Being Gotten In Poem by Edward Kofi Louis

Harvard was founded in 1636,
And Yale was founded in 1701;
But like the Cherokees of the Americans with the autumn flowers,
My mind is now made up like the Aztecs of Mexico.

Along the shores of Cape Cold Bay in my love,
With wild fruits of nuts like the winter berries;
But to be on board with the May Flower,
And like James Town on the James River.

Give me an axe to chop down a wood in the forest,
For i am now setting my feet on a dry land;
With the hissing of snakes around me,
For the rivers of the flooding waters are now seen ahead of me.

Oh life!
Baldness has come upon Gaza;
And of lives decorated with anutmn flowers,
For i am now being gotten in! !

Hissing, kissing, missing!
I am like one who cuts down a sacred tree;
But in the Fall of 1621,
The earth sook with a great noise for their fall!

No flight for my swift lover,
For you've harnessed your horses for war!
But the sharpness of my spear is like the land of the dead.

A few out of many to sing to my joy,
For there is no escape at the strong holds;
And i am now being gotten in.

Life at the Universities and,
Life to those in pwer! !
But my mind writes like the Aztecs of Mexico,
And like the hissing of the snakes around me!