poetry

Slavery/Oppression

I thought that slavery was abolished but it just got pregnant to give birth to a tormentor within the blacks

because oppression by the white master was better than the oppression by the black-white master

see today it is the black-white master I’m enslaved by

the same whip that used to whip Kwame, Adyuba and Kodyo, (slave ) day names my great grandmother Abenkina is now shooting me like a gun

where there is no profit for black-white master and his children there is also no profit for me who is enslaved

because the whipscratch of the same whip which is whipping me around and around

made huge wounds on my black skin which is tired of being punished, insulted

but, it is brother Kwame who is treating sister Kwamina like this

perhaps a wind shall blow in the east to take away oppression from my black skin

how sad, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom is a dream

source: https://worldpoetrymovement.org/2019/03/02/poems-by-louise-wondel/

biobibibliographical note: louise wondel (1971-2014) was a poet and dancer from suriname