"Then" Is Protracted
by Amiri Baraka
We wanted free as what is free
& away & gone & up past lost
We wanted color & breathing & hope
To see hope
We wanted love & be healthy always
We wanted each other & for every body
To know the best things & feel the
Beautiful things
We want true us & true you &
True history & for truth itself
To ice lies finally & as long
We wanted ugly to not be, & warmth
To help us see
We wanted need to be natural
& prayer to be conversation
We wanted the weather to act better
& us in it never under it
We wanted what we wanted
& desired what inspired
us to be ourselves
& ourselves to be free
Is there a place in the world
This cannot be understood?
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