A Small Memorial about the Slave Trade

Our normal lives turned

upside down;

cruelty now reigns

full of bodies, blood

and disease.

We breath in death overseas,

leather cracking over our backs.

Help us.

Captured to make

cotton and sugar

for rich people who are blind

to how we have to sacrifice

our minds, bodies,

and souls.

We try to escape

this hell of a ship;

freeing our souls 

from our tortured bodies.

Remaining silent,

we must write our story

on our skin and mind.

Don't forget this shameful story.

Don't forget,

we're human too.