Physical, emotional, and spiritual devastation has been tied to the slaves forever haunting them in life.
Who am I? One might ask, unsure and unable to desperately seek for an answer.
A human so damaged, they are unaware of who one's self is.
Loud screaming in the background, can't decide if the screaming is coming from himself or from someone else.
Used and traded like a typical object, loss of humanity and compassion.
Never forgetting the taste of iron, while forever silenced.
What does it mean to be human? Who is considered to be a real man?
Looking into a mirror and feeling shattered by the reflection.
Chains so tightly wrapped around the past with no way …show more content…
of escaping.
Depression violently eating away the bodies of the helpless.
Feeling so hopeless that a mother would slit the throat of her own child, to save them from such a miserable life.
A world so damaged and scarred in desperate need of being healed.
Exhausted from the inhuman ways of torture, simply because of a color.
A heart so tarnished, that it is better referred to as a tin tobacco box.
Emotions and feelings being kept quiet is what will keep you safe from more torture.
Surrounded by trees, starting to feel like one grounded with nowhere to go.
Family constantly being taken away, always being reminded to not love too much.
Finally escaping from one place, but only to be discovered and taken to a place that is much worse.
Silent tears leaving a permanent mark on one's face, trying to explain to the young ones that they will eventually be sold and taken away from their mother.
Being kept illiterate because the less you know about freedom the better.
Haunted by ghosts, constantly reminding you of the terrible sacrifices that were made for the better.
A chokecherry tree on her back to forever remember being used and tossed around.
Tree on her back reminding her of her unfinished family.
How could one group be so powerful? Why were they so powerful?
What have I done wrong to deserve this pain that will now forever be apart of my life?
Feeling so angry, trying to decide if death would be the best option.
Brutally hurt and traumatized from the horrible events in jail.
Waking up in the middle of the night afraid, having a clear image of the disturbing moments in jail.
Chained to one another with no way out, everyone is stuck with you.
Workin so hard day and night until your body becomes numb to the pain, and you learn to make it a routine.
Running away from the physical pain, but unable to be freed from the miserable disturbing memories that were made.
I killed my daughter because that's what was best, but why can't I just escape this guilt that is eating me alive?
How can love be wonderful yet so miserable?
How can someone be so inhumane and take a child from their mother just to raise them into becoming seen as an object rather than a human?
How is a person supposed to repress all their thoughts and continue living as if nothing happened in the past?
Selfish and greediness is what ruins society.
Angry and can only think about revenge.
How could I get this beast to recognize the pain that I've been through?
Being so damaged physically and emotionally that the best option being thought of is killing the ones that killed me on the inside.
Desperate for a way out I begin to consider ending my pain now, or to end the life of my master to allow some of my own pain to be released.
Darkness begins to drown my thoughts and the only thing I can think about is all that we have all been through.
I feel like I have become a monster, I murdered my child, because of one person.
Such an evil person that deserves to die, not my daughter.
I see the creature that has caused me so much pain and I decide to attempt to end its life, with hope that I’ll feel better.
It’s not fair that I can’t love and be happy I havn’t done anything
wrong.