Dreaming Black Boy by James Berry

Produced by Barracks Entertainment, CSEC Poetry Made Easy

Dreaming Black Boy by James Berry

I wish my teacher’s eyes wouldn’t
go past me today. Wish he’d know
it’s okay to hug me when I kick
a goal. Wish I myself wouldn’t hold back when answer comes.
I’m no woodchopper now
like all ancestors.

I wish I could be educated
to the best of tune up, and earn
good money and not sink to lick
boots. I wish I could go on every
crisscross way of the globe
and no persons or powers or
hotel keepers would make it a waste.

I wish life wouldn’t spend me out
opposing. Wish same way creation
would have me stand it would have
me stretch, and hold high, my voice
Paul Robeson’s, my inside eye
a sun.Nobody wants to say
hello to nasty answers.

I wish torch throwers of night
would burn lights for decent times.
Wish plotters in pyjamas would pray
for themselves. Wish people wouldn’t
talk as if I dropped from Mars.

I wish only boys were scared
behind bravados, for i could suffer.
I could suffer a big big lot.
I wish nobody would want to earn
the terrible burden I can suffer.

[smiley.]

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[Ms.Bookworm]

This is nice, I remember going to the Ward Theatre to see Macbeth, my sister watched Shane while my brother went to Carib to watch the movie Narnia (Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe it makes the books come alive

[ARRIBAD]

I remember reading this for literature

[adrianbacchus]

I got english b exam in couple hours it's 3:49am currently

[Thomas]

I felt as if the tone of the poem was misread. The tone was not angry in any way. This reader was raging.

[DanielMartin-nmch]

I wish i could do theatre arts. I wana act bad