I lay down in my grave
and watch my children
grow
Proud blooms
above the weeds of death.


Elegy for Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass (1975)


I lay down in my grave and watch my children grow Proud blooms above the weeds of death.

I lay down in my grave and watch my children grow Proud blooms above the weeds of death.

I lay down in my grave and watch my children grow Proud blooms above the weeds of death.

I lay down in my grave and watch my children grow Proud blooms above the weeds of death.