Forbidden Love

Waking up
to the sound
of a whip,
because last night
someone took
an unauthorized trip.

Being forced to
witness someone
being stripped down
to the bone,
an example
being made for
those who want
to leave the
plantation
on their own.

We live by
simple rules
which is very clear,
breaking those rules
we all must
live in fear.

One such rule
is to never
look the Master
or any other
white folk
in their eyes,
better to convince
all white folks
that you are
simply gazing up
at the skies.

But one white woman
is focusing her
inappropriate attention
towards me,
an attention
that can only
end up one way,
which is me
hanging from
a tree.

No white man
will ever believe
my words
over the word
of a white lady,
if I ran away
then that
will be crazy.

That woman ordered me
to meet her
out back
in the woodshed,
when I got there
she turned a bale
of hay
into a bed.

She took my hand
and
placed it
on her chest,
to be honest
it felt good
caressing this
woman’s breasts.

Never in my wildest dreams
having a white woman
making love to me,
wondering
do she have
the power to
set me free.

I felt so special
I felt ten feet tall,
but a terrible thought
came upon me
of white men
cutting off
my balls.

She finish
with her pleasure
and
told me to leave,
if I told this
to anyone
she guaranteed
I will be
hanging from a tree.

From that moment on
I pray to the
man up above,
to save my soul
from this
Forbidden Love.

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Allthemanuneed Poetic Stories