New World A-Comin'

Existence
Photo courtesy of Jose Chavarry @ Flickr

Helpless like this
leader-
less like this,
heroless,
we met you: love,
warrior, hater,
coming through the files
of the forest
soft foot
to soft soil
of silence:
we met in the soiled tunnel of leaves.

New World A-Comin' by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

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