It's A Long Road Poem by Mark Heathcote

It's a long passage home baby
if you've been taken and shackled
Body and mind baby
if you've been disembarked
from all you've known heart and soul.

It's a long hard trek back baby
Even-more-so if you've no recollection
of who you are or where you came from.
it's a long voyage back baby
if you've been flogged and stripped
and had everything you know taken away.
Leaving-you with no family or any home, any people or culture.

It's a long road of subterfuge baby
Full of pain if there's no roadmap back home
It's a kin to having no kith or kin
Or waging war or a battle you can't win
if you've been misplaced, misled, and left in a desert,
a desert without summer or winter
a desert without autumn or a spring
without any desire in your heart left to be strong.

without any desire in your heart to sing
It's a long passage of suffering baby
But baby you can ease my suffering tonight
You can be my angel of deliverance darling
And satisfy my homeless heart with you,
And guide, and return my soul back to the light
Like it never went dark if you just unshackle
My body and mind baby
if you just unshackle my heart and soul
I shall learn once more how to be strong
I shall learn once more how to sing one more last song.

Angel don't break your vow, your promise
It's a long road of subterfuge baby
Full of pain if there's no roadmap back home
It's a kin to having no kith or kin
Or waging war or a battle you can't win
Without comprising tears still hurtful and mystifying.
Could take all your stripes and triumph.