Who Am I

I’m told I sell at street corners for work,

Yet I was told to go back to the fields

They say that I have no right to education,

yet I was told to drop out of high school

I was told I had no rights,

yet had the dream that could have changed this country

I was seen as a menace to society

since I was brought to this country on a boat packed with people just like me

and see them as they see me,

frightened, scared, and powerless

Yet we are treated like the lion at the zoo,

we apparently are captured and taken out our habitat

and forced into this new better scenery,

only to be seen as a threat by the people who forced me here

Who Am I, that I had the dream that apparently

could change this bountry country for the worse

Who Am I that I should be told to sell at corners

just to be brought to a plantation

Who Am I, that I should wade in the water to gain freedom

just to reach the same unachievable Dream

as the low lives that brought me here to do their work in the hot sweaty fields

that would swallow anything colorful that they see

that looks like despair and sorrow incarnate.

Who Am I…

I'm the man that fought the earth back

I'm the one that made it through the torcher of the capturs

I'm the one with the great dream that died a few days after with a dream that stayed alive

I'm the one that no matter what kind of painful trials you tried to put me through to put me to my knees and cry that got back up every single time no matter how hard you slammed back because I knew I was stronger than you thought I was

Why?

I'm the great underdog that always comes back to win

I'm the man that went from the streets to top boss of your multi-billion company

I'm the one that always saw the light you couldn't see and if there was no light I would make one, no matter what

I am a negro...A man that will never quit and never back down