I’ve been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me, sun has baked me.
Looks like between ‘em
They done tried to make me
Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’-
But I don’t care!
I’m still here! 

Source: 
cwthayer.com/Langston_Hughes_Poems.pdf

More about the poet:
www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm