Georgia Douglas Johnson, "Promise" and "Prejudice" (1925)
If you can laught along the road,
Altho you bend beneath a load
Of sorrow,
Your hope-lit eyes shall surely see
A rainbow sweep eternity
Tomorrow.
Prejudice
The World is dark,
I cannot see my way!
Eternal clouds
Obscure the light of day--
I seek a break, a rift, a litttle space,
There to behold
One God-illumined place!
Published in The Messenger, July 1925