I am descended from pharaohs
I am wild but royal from the chin up
I slept in the shadows of pyramids
I spent a sleepless night swirling in a
Sea of Reeds
I was sold by my fellow man into
foreign familiarity
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Spent sleepless days parting seas of
cotton and cane
Dogs at my heels
Sleepwalked for freedom through
locust-plagued darkness
Dogs at my heels
Spent summer days cool as hoses parted
my clothes
Dogs at my heels
Marched for freedom with my fellow man
on the Mall
Dogs at my heels
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Wild, royal, chin up, crawling success'
pyramid
Looking eastward to Egypt's ancient
wonders in ruin
Each effort as ephemeral as the last
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