A Need for Happiness
By: Soukaina Tapenga Calixte
A life of slavery,
Wanting to be free
Laying down,
Being beaten
Or your sore knees
Thinking of the past,
All of the people,
Who fought to be free?
You’re thinking in your head,
Slavery got to be dead,
I got to fight,
Now, forever,
To get victory,
How could I get out!
What would the slave master say?
Would he send the guards?
Who will be searching my way?
Where would I go?
Who will I meet?
I got to stop doubting,
I need to believe,
Racism, hatred, al of those things,
I am thinking,
Where did that all begin,
Separate schools, separate fountains,
Why would people be so cruel?
Being teased,
For being,
Over weight, different color,
And for what they do
This is all wrong
I wish this could all be gone
So now let’s think of all
The people who tried to put
A stop to
Racism, hatred, rudeness,
Slavery, being mistreated,
Assassinated, and attacked
Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington,
Harriet Tubman,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Oprah Winfrey,
Rosa Parks,
Ruby Bridges,
And last but definitely
Not least
Barack Obama
Who is our President.
