Trembling at His Feet

Steven Bowman 1997 (Voorhees Township, NJ)



Once there was a black slave,
He wanted nothing to be freer.
A wish to escape a deadly fate,
If he would, won’t have a fear.

Bruised by the whips of death,
Beaten till he’s black and blue.
He will be bruised, right to left,
Just he will never realize the truth.

Trembling at his feet he swore,
Over my dead body ya asshole.
Just let me noticed how ya are,
Beaten until was blacken whole.

Trapped by his own slave owner,
He swore to revenge and escape.
Needs escape before his spotter,
He was free before all death rate.

About this poem

This poem is from 2015.

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Written on 2015

Submitted by stevenbowman319 on May 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABX XXXX XCXC AXAB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 526
Words 118
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

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