York: The Story of a Slave

by Kiera S.

York, a slave of Clark, the famous explorer

who traveled into an unknown west

Slave to the Corps of Discovery

nothing but a black man

A boy, even if he was 6-feet tall,

and had the skills of a trapper, hunter, and a fisherman

Hero to all the Native Indians

for black was a sign of a powerful warrior

In the end, he was a man of courage and bravery

to all men, women and children

Who have skin as dark as the blackest pitch