How often have my pets and I
Have walked the paths
That are behind my house
Dogs eating leaves and inhaling the many scents
Not one or two
But hundreds
Until that one day
When I saw the wind tossed leaves create large openings
And I saw the outline of faces
Of what appears to be a human form
With neither skin color,hair, eyes, nose, mouth or ears
It makes me wonder
Are they dead
Is this what is to come
Countless numbers
Is this what it is to become
Of America
Or to the World
Again I ask myself
Is America’s star fading
I wonder if a jackass professional football player
Ever studied the history of
Native Americans, Colonists, and African slaves
Easier for one
But harder for the others
Did you study the war of 1812
If we had ventured off the land
The English would have had us for lunch
Football player
Tell me what the English
Did with the slaves they confiscated
Since they were slave traders
Could they have sold them
England did not abolish slavery totally until 1840
Yes Francis Scott Key owned slaves
When he wrote the document that contained
The Star Spangled Banner
For your information
It is the first paragraph in that historical document
Yes Africans had a terribly hard time
More so than anyone else
A Civil War did not end the hurts
The restrictions were abominable
Until a new voice was heard
Do you know him
Over 50 years have passed
Since Martin Luther King told Black Americans
To get an education
Get a job
But the most important part of his thesis
Is seldom recalled
“When two Children of different races play together
There will be no hatred
Just a friendship that will last an eternity”
Look around it is already happening
Those who who refuse to be law abiding
Shall be some of the faces that I saw in the trees
Ask yourself what has been done to help African Americans
Besides getting a hand full of beans
I’d say not much
Not much for their loyalty
Although I fear the future
I say to all
Reach out to others with palm outstretched
An quietly say
I am an American
Just like you