Struggling To Reach The Mountaintop

We are still sweating and struggling

To reach the mountaintop

We are still marching and fighting

To get to the mountaintop

We are backstabbed all the time

We’re told audaciously that a dime

Is worth or valued more than our lives

Despite the deep pains and the long dives

We’re strong, resilient ready to rumble

To mix it up, to tumble and not to fumble

The ball at the end of the last quarter

We will fall and we will get up stronger

Smarter and more determined to reach

The mountaintop, by walking on the beach

To encourage the forgotten people to join in

Because we will walk together and create a scene

That the world has never seen. We will walk

In unity. We will be forever united. We will talk

And chat as siblings and we’ll chant as we labor on and struggle

To reach the mountaintop. This is only the onset. We’ll huggle

Juggle and snuggle. We will suffer to become harder and tougher

We’ll be stopped by nothing: the huffers, the bluffers and the weather

The hypocrites, liars, cheaters, hillbilly criminals, mobsters, rioters

Bad actors, tyrants, supremacists, goons, buffoons and invaders

We shall reach the mountaintop before long, in due time

With God on our side, we can’t be stopped. A dream isn’t a crime

Hope is by our side. God gave us the strength, the vitality

And the determination. We will get there surely and timely

We know that it will not be easy to reach the mountaintop

We’ll make a few shortstops and we shall use our backstop

At the last resort. We will get there soon, very soon

We’ll reach the mountaintop under the brightest moon.

Copyright © January 16, 2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved

Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.