BROTHER REMOVED by Anthony Andre Douglas     long ago in Africa Blackman celebrated his blackness as bold as shade proudly standing in sun-light like the first ripe fruit of a sacred Mango-tree announcing his presence to all the land yet concealing him from predators in the night then his gratitude knew no bounds blessed with such wonderful skin willingly he gave each years first   crops of harvest accumilating wisdom,  virtue and spiritual growth he learned to love and respect the land from it came all that he would need as he gave back whole-heartedly but this brother removed shipped across massive waters stripped of his name watered down, his sable diluted in this land of freedom each road leads him back to slavery where among strange plants and trees detestible distinctions infectiously strangles his spirit like litters of Hitler spawn now he finds Africa to be his true need his single delicate bond shackled to his feet as visions of his ancestors walk the Motherland of his mind and like his fathers father before he yearns to go back home back to celebrate blackness beyond the unwavering vastness  of his removal

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