Carol_jp, esse é pra vc!

Langston Hughes é um dos meus poetas favoritos. Sua obra é fascinante. Nem mencionar o período extraordinário em que ele participou. Um movimento muito importante culturalmente chamado Harlem Renaissance. Tenho um livro dele fantástico de poesias (The Dream Keeper and other poems) que vou te emprestar! Sim, você terá que desenferrujar o inglês! Mas prometo que valerá mais que a pena! :)

Mother to Son

Well, son, I'll tell you:

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

It's had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I'se been a-climbin' on,

And reachin' landin's,

And turnin' corners,

And sometimes goin' in the dark

Where there ain't been no light.

So, boy, don't you turn back.

Don't you set down on the steps.

'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.

Don't you fall now—

For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin',

And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Langston Hughes

LANGSTON, Hughes. The dream keeper and other poems. New York: Knopf, 1994.