New World A-Comin'

New World A-Comin'

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