Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Photograph Info:Portrait of American writer and activist Langston Hughes in 1943 (US Library of Congress Archives)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Poem:Kids Who Die

This is for the kids who die,Black and white,For kids will die certainly.The old and rich will live on awhile,As  Always,Eating blood and gold,Letting kids die.

Kids will die in the swamps of MississippiOrganizing sharecroppersKids will die in the streets of ChicagoOrganizing workersKids will die in the orange groves of CaliforniaTelling others to get togetherWhites and Filipinos,Negroes and Mexicans,All kinds of kids will dieWho don’t believe in lies, and bribes, and contentmentAnd a lousy peace.