Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Angola Question Mark

Don't know why I,

Black,

Must still stand

With my back

To the last frontier

Of fear

In my own land.

Don't know why I,

Must turn into

A Mau Mau

And lift my hand

Against my fellow man

To live in my own land.

But it is so-

And being so

I know

For you and me

There's

Woe.