Perceptions

My name is Anna Marie. The 5th of this coming September will mark 29 years God has given me on this here Earth. And, not a one that I can remember was ever easy. But, I'm working at it. I had my first child at the tender age of 12. I thought of her as my little doll. I'd carry her every where I went. Her pappy didn't like that though. She looked to much like him I guess. His wife really didn't like that. Although she and I never really saw eye to eye. Guess she was mad at me because I had his first child. She had no reason to be mad though, because it's not like he wanted mine. I'd never let my little doll know though. I've married since then, but that doesn't stop him from getting what he wants. Naw, what the master says goes. He'll send my Joe out on some hunting trip with the overseeer and come a sniffing round me by night fall. I have 4 chillun and all of them look like massuh. But, Joe is a good man. He treats all of them like his own. If he knows they ain't he doesn't let on. I think he knows, though. Whenever he gets sent off the plantation he gives me this long sorrowful look. He won't touch me for a week after he gets back, but he treats me real kindly.

© Unveiling (2006)