Rebekah’s Comments (group member since Mar 24, 2011)

Rebekah’s comments from the MHSHS Reading Group group.

Rebekah Goberdhan P3

The “New Economy” (#1-The Gilded Age)

The capitalists and the unionist
They all made lists to make their own gain
Their own way of doing things
Eliminating competition, bribing, and causing corruption
Boy doesn’t that sound a lot like today?
The “new economy” they said would bring in the green
But all it did was bring in the fiends

You see there was the division
And then there was the violence
And somewhere in between there were
The Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Rockefellers

The Strong Are Still Free (#2-Self Poem)

For those that didn’t know
For those that couldn’t see
The intelligent, strong, and bold
Are still free
Free to grow as thinkers
Free to be the ice breakers
Breaking the barriers
Breaking the silence
Being the truth carriers

Despite the aches and heartbreaks
I was never truly held down
but only bound by self-inflicted fears and tears
and what do I have to say for that now?
No excuses, no apologies
Because that was then and this is me
Free, not sure of what I would’ve been if not for
Those experiences that made me
Carpe diem! That’s what the best have shown me
And in fact isn’t that what life really should mean?

If you forgot or didn’t see
Then I’ll be the first to make you believe
The intelligent, strong, and bold are still free
Making demons flee
Healing others by taking the lead
And never losing sight of their original dream

Low Down Abolitionist (#3-Found Poem)

She told me about the bad place
and I said I wished I was there
She told me to pray everyday
and whatever I asked for I would get it
But it warn’t so, I tried it

Had gone and took all that trouble
I’ve as good a notion as ever I had in my life
To set him free
I wanted the adventure of it
How he could help a body set a nigger free with his bringing-up
People would despise me for keeping mum
But that don’t make no difference
Conscience says to me it warn’t anything
but a soft name for stealing