Monday, August 11, 2014

Bottom Rail On Top




Bottom Rail On Top

Slowly across the sky…an illusion as I crawl forward and you stand still.

Hallucinating six days…heat, cotton, whip, blood…God this is real.

 Sunday you are my friend…you race too fast.

I am free…a grandiose delusion.

A moment to read from the only book massa allows…reality.

Fifty-two lessons a year…God is a good teacher.

I discover...my journey ends in Heaven and massa goin’ to Hell.


Inspired by...In 1865, a freed slave serving in the Union Army saw his former master amidst a group of Confederate prisoners he was guarding and said, "Hello massa, bottom rail on top 'dis time." 

A "conversation" between a slave and the sun.

Matthew 20:1-16


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