Journal #2

O lawd, we omen of the world pray yuh shelter us from harm. We who have suffered so much, lawd give us de strength to take our lives in our own hands and steer it were we wish. For too long has it been lawd, too long has our sufferin dragged on, too long have we been powerless. Lift this burdun of oppression as you lifted the shackles of the white man. Why is it lawd, that while the black man is free, the black woman is still trapped by de rules of a master, a master that we are encouraged to find less we be left helpless. So here us now lawd, we wish to be free and equal amung de men, let us walk at our own pace and not one that someone else dictates, let us choose which road we travel on.