I write because I bare stories within me

Stories of toil, shame

Of roots and rain

Of broken parts

That paved the way to this present day

 

I write for the struggle we will win

For a life of justice to begin

I write for the day every man, Woman, Boy, and Girl

Will stand equally

No patriarchy

No superiority

For the day my African American mother

is treated as a white man’s equal in the self-proclaimed Land of the Free

And in every country beyond these seas

 

I write to declare light over darkness

Love over power

And truth over greed

 

I write for the day we will rise as one body

Every race, color, and creed

 

I write because when I do

Something within me frees the truth

 

 And in that moment I find –

 Treasure far beyond this life