Lament for Dark Peoples by Langston Hughes

I was a red man one time, / But the white men came.

I was a black man, too, / But the white men came.

They drove me out of the forest.

They took me away from the jungles.

I lost my trees.

I lost my silver moons.

Now they've caged me / In the circus of civilization.

Now I herd with the many --

Caged in the circus of civilization.