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the Novel
 Afro Black
Black Soul
Free
Passionate Faces
the Scroll Poems
Forest Included
In His Novel
"Spirit Ran Free"
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Forest Garfield Hairston
Free
There ever at my Black Africa, the wild
Savanna wind ever remain
Find yet my soul at Africa in the valley
across God's wider sea
Leave me be but there at my village
drenched in the tinctured rain
I was born there not what a shackled
slave, I was born there free.
Long there was my Africa at the Sudan,
at the crossroad of early man
And ever on the Niger flow, and ever
the Niger River freely join the sea
Still yet a man's blacker footprint,
still yet imbue in the swelter sand
Wild cries yell amidst the wild beast,
but even the wild beast run free.
Tho' the ship sailed me away from my
Africa, my spirit was never lost
My soul yet endured the cold deeper water,
beyond the Middle Passage sea
My shackles freed at the waning dawn,
what time thaw what chilled frost
Freedom came at the last hour, here
be my legacy, my Spirit Ran Free. |
the Poet
Forest Hairston
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