Punches thrown for man and country <br /> Punches gotten for man and woman <br /> What they did we did in Amistad <br /> Yes… punches… for women and children <br /> Take it so… for man and country <br /> <br />What a way for fettered friendships <br /> Given or thrown for man and country <br /> Taken or laid by hands in Amistad <br /> Redundant aches for man and country <br />You and I… amid star judges forever <br /> <br />Sails mounted on the Atlantic Ocean <br /> Are a famished embodiment <br /> Of love and hate in Amistad <br /> Souls neither blue nor white <br />Are sailing... sailing… sailing... <br /> <br />Yet they come from careless neglect <br /> Sons and daughters of Chiefs and Queens <br /> With no names from more names in Amistad <br /> So I salute with enthusiasm <br />My siblings who sail on the seas <br /> <br />Guilty punches thrown by Malice <br /> Sengbe Pieh is a better name <br /> And a Monarch gave birth to Amistad <br /> Sengbe whose blood knows how to spell NO <br />With echoes on land and sea <br /> <br />And what he did I truly did <br /> I got back my soul from punches <br /> Amistad Friendship Amistad <br /> Blasts many horns for many ears <br />That the children may hear and live <br /> <br />But from what you say you have not heard <br /> From what you do you have not heard <br /> From what you see there is no Amistad <br /> So Amistad horns will keep blasting <br />For those of us that have not heard <br /> <br />Amistad Friendship Amistad Friendship Amistad Friendship Amistad<br /><br />Moses Kainwo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amistad-amistad-amistad/
