Indentured

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. - Thoreau

i gave and i gave

you tied me up

took me away

made me behave

do your bidding

stand and wave

i dug and tended your future grave

flowers and all

rant and rave

i didn't even have time to shave

that's what happens

when you're someone's slave

Author's Note

"I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge. - Thoreau