Children’s Rhymes

By Langston Hughes

By what sends
the white kids
I ain’t sent:
I know I can’t
be President.

What don’t bug
them white kids
sure bugs me:
We know everybody
ain’t free.

Lies written down
for white folks
ain’t for us a-tall:
Liberty and Justice
Huh! – For All ?

Comments : Found this poem in an anthology titled ‘The Black Poets’. Thought it apt to run at a time when an African American president of the U.S.A has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Some things have changed for the better over time ! - Z.