America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me
Shane McCrae * Track #2 On Poem-A-Day (2017)
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America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me by Shane McCrae
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The shadow I had carried lightly has
Been forced upon me now and heavy since
Bulky since now and since unwieldy as
A corpse the shadow I was born from in
And to I should have known I couldn’t being
As how it wasn’t me who lifted it
Not all the way from me in the first place being
As how its lightness after was a gift
Its near- bodilessness a gift from those
Who bind it to me now I should have known
I couldn’t while they watched me set it loose
They bind it to my back they make it strange
That I knew in my arms they weigh it down
With the shadow they had kept the bindings in
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America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me was written by Shane McCrae.
When did Shane McCrae release America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me?
Shane McCrae released America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me on Thu Jun 29 2017.