Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Song for a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes

Song for a Dark Girl 

Way Down South in Dixie
       (Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
       To a cross roads tree.
 
Way Down South in Dixie
       (Bruised body high in air)
I asked the white Lord Jesus
       What was the use of prayer.
 
Way Down South in Dixie
       (Break the heart of me)
Love is a naked shadow
       On a gnarled and naked tree.



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