Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Song For a Dark Girl

Way down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my dark young lover
In 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.

by Langston Hughes

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