The salty sweat from their brown skin fertilizes the fresh soil.

Their calloused hands are now damaged beyond recognition. 

Their fingerprints, like their names, have been erased…

They all look the same, no matter the gender or age,

sore, tired, and uncertain.

They pick cotton while praying for a freedom that they will never see

and for the ones that will, not the kind they envisioned.

They sing hymns of God’s glory

that they only see through their survival.

But as the busted leather whips tear into their blistered backs,

the beautiful face of hope begins to scar.

They are the victims of the New World,

but their anguish still lingers into the 21st C...

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