Bus Stop

She approaches the bus stop to wait,

for the bus was the only way.

The bus arrived a minute late

and when she got in to pay

She saw the driver's eyes were full of hate.

She sat next to a black man on his own

and seeing seats in white section where none sit alone.

More whites got on and asked her to stand

but she did not, and instead was feeling grand.

She knew her rights and kept tall

for even after the bad names she did not fall.

Claudette Colvin also tried staying on a bus one day

but people just threatened to forcibly take her away.

A pregnant woman sat with Colvin named Ruth Hamilton

but she too had been arrested and forgotten.

The same bus driver from 6 years ago asked Rosa again

more than he would ask other black women,

and he still did not like her then.

The black man next to her had finally left

and the driver asked her, "lady are you deaf?"

The driver called the cops, when she did nothing wrong

and even after this she remained standing strong.

Blacks more comfortable waiting for freedom to break in

instead of fighting for rights that shouldn't have been taken.

The cops then asking her to stand up

but Rosa was still not ready to get up.

The cops grabbed her by the arm, tight

and in minutes she goes where there's no light.

This sparked a 381 day boycott

and blacks went on and fought what they were taught.

During this boycott the KKK had showed

leaving black people lying on the icy cold road.

Blacks were starting to get some sight,

they were starting to fight,

they were finally starting to see what was right.

They were willing to sacrifice lives

even as blacks saw their own being stabbed with knives.

The pain being dealt with

going through it everyday with possibility of life or death.

After 381 days of blacks not using transportation,

Rosa Parks had ended something on a bus called segregation.