The Begining Of Slavery Poem by Orlando Belo

Slavery began when different tribes fought each other
those that were not killed, male, female, young, and old
were taken prisoner and forced into a life of slavery
to be used, abused, bartered with, and sold.

Even before the first civilizations, a human being
was capable of cruelty and doing harm to another.
More so, to a complete stranger or an enemy,
but also to one's brother, sister, father, and mother.

Some humans evolved and refined their wants and needs,
and developed a craving for power and domination.
Which would bring them wealth, privilege, and supremacy,
and the right to determine the law to suit their own situation.

The tribes became larger and so did the oppressor's demands
for more wealth, more power, and more slaves.
This was happening in every country throughout the world,
the people became hunted, as they hid in the deepest of caves.

The dictator's greed for power and wealth became inexhaustible.
and they continually hungered for more slaves, land, and control.
As they expanded their territory they grew ever stronger
and considered themselves kings, emperors, and tzars, to behold.

These tyrants invaded other countries, which led to out-and-out wars.
In their own eyes, they were given their might and right from God.
Consequently amongst the spoils of war were the ordinary people,
the insignificant expendables that could find peace beneath a sod.

In every country, the ordinary people lived under permanent threat,
a bystander, a slave, a servant, a soldier, a sailor, a surf.
All were used as cannon fodder by the self-made ruler usurper,
in those days when democracy had no place on earth.

To ensure that these tyrants remained as hero's in human history,
they wrote their own distorted versions because they ruled supreme.
The defeated had no voice or pen to tell their story of the truth,
so history became the record of the tyrant's idealistic dreams.