Poem by Langston Hughes

Song for a Dark Girl

Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree.

Way Down South in Dixie
(Bruised body high in air)
I asked the white Lord Jesus
What was the use of prayer.

Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
Love is a naked shadow
On a gnarled and naked tree.

1. You and Your Whole Race
2. Kids Who Die
3. Sylvester’s Dying Bed
4. For Selma
5. Personal

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