Amistad

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    Amistad

    Amistad! Amistad! Amistad!

    Punches thrown for man and country
    Punches gotten for man and woman
    What they did we did in Amistad
    Yes… punches… for women and children
    Take it so… for man and country

    What a way for fettered friendships
    Given or thrown for man and country
    Taken or laid by hands in Amistad
    Redundant aches for man and country
    You and I… amid star judges forever

    Sails mounted on the Atlantic Ocean
    Are a famished embodiment
    Of love and hate in Amistad
    Souls neither blue nor white
    Are sailing... sailing… sailing...

    Yet they come from careless neglect
    Sons and daughters of Chiefs and Queens
    With no names from more names in Amistad
    So I salute with enthusiasm
    My siblings who sail on the seas

    Guilty punches thrown by Malice
    Sengbe Pieh is a better name
    And a Monarch gave birth to Amistad
    Sengbe whose blood knows how to spell NO
    With echoes on land and sea

    And what he did I truly did
    I got back my soul from punches
    Amistad Friendship Amistad
    Blasts many horns for many ears
    That the children may hear and live

    But from what you say you have not heard
    From what you do you have not heard
    From what you see there is no Amistad
    So Amistad horns will keep blasting
    For those of us that have not heard

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    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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