By: Kelley Egan
At The Stake
Standing in the middle of flames
waiting to burn.
They say what i speak is evil
and this is how I will learn.
But the man with the chalky skin
knows not, his evil deeds.
The man with the sky blue eyes
ruins all he sees.
I’m talking, but no one is listening.
will my words always go unheard?
I’m thinking of what God will say
when I am forced to rejoin his herd.
They’ve beaten me with fists of ignorance
and whipped me to the bone .
Hundreds of years etched in my back
while I lay upon their stone.
Stripped me of my cloth,
while spitting on my frame.
But, they will never change my mind,
even now standing in their flame