Chapter 5, C.

To the love of my life, land.     

Land, you are graceful with your beautiful soil. Although what 

cotton has done to you, you are so very beautiful,

I wish i could have stood up for you when the 

"Owners of the land came onto the land"(31)

They were never the owners, it was ours

They kicked us off you, you were once so graceful.

We ruined you

"We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster"(33).

No-one knew you as i did, not the monster or anyone!

"He could not see the land as it was, he could not smell the 

land as it smelled; his feet did not stamp the clods or feel the 

warmth and powder of the earth"(35).

I will always miss you land,

My heart will always belong to you.