The Weary Blues/Afraid

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Lament for Dark Peoples
The Weary Blues
by James Mercer Langston Hughes
Afraid
Poem—For the Portrait of an African Boy
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AFRAID

We cry among the skyscrapers
As our ancestors
Cried among the palms in Africa
Because we are alone,
It is night,
And we're afraid.

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