Episode 3: "Song" by Langston Hughes
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.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPhotograph Info:\nGeorge Platt Lynes - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c01955.\xa0----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe Poem:\n\nSong\n\nLovely, dark, and lonely one,\xa0\nBare your bosom to the sun,\xa0\nDo not be afraid of light\nYou who are a child of night.\xa0\nOpen wide your arms to life,\xa0\nWhirl in the wind of pain and strife,\xa0\nFace the wall with the dark closed gate,\xa0\nBeat with bare, brown fists\nAnd wait.\xa0\n\n\nThis poem is in the public domain.