Crossing

It was that lonely day, folks,
When I walked all by myself.
My friends was all around me –
But it was as if they’d left.

I went up on a mountain
In a high cold wind,
And the coat that I was wearing
Was mosquito-netting thin.

I went down in the valley
And I crossed an icy stream,
And the water I was crossing
Was no water in a dream.
And the shoes I was wearing
No protection for that stream.

Then I stood out on a prairie
And as far as I could see —
Wasn’t nobody on that prairie
That looked like me.

It was that lonely day, folks,
I walked all by myself:
My friends was right there with me
But was just as if they’d left.

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langston hughes

Click here: —–> <—– for lyrics to poem set to music composed and sung by Taj Mahal which was featured at the end of the 1992 movie: Zebrahead.