Walking With The Wind

After over a year of reading Congressmen John Lewis' autobiography (Walking With the Wind) of his coming to age in the Jim Crow south,his years as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement(alongside MLK)and his journey to being a leader, politician, etc. I wrote this....


Sunrise, moon fall

Pretty eyes, Southern drawl

Righteous causes, only the weak fall

Burning crosses, y’all stood tall

Dogs and hoses, cops and batons

Where was the statement “Can we all just get along?”

White then Black

Separate, but equal

Christians who loved, but hated Black people

“Blue-eyed devils” with capes and hoods

Blood drawn, where most of y’all stood

Rotting corpses, funeral processions

All these things painful life lessons

Standing for something not willing to fall

Crucified like Christ, nailed to a wall

Memories fade, but yea we still rep all of y’all

Broken down

Slave ships, whips, then CRACK

Trees raised and full grown on your backs

Funny how were so removed from all of that

Dejected and self abused

We love the world that enables us to act like fools

Degrading and parading all we were meant to be

Foolishly in love with what we see on T.V.

Unable to separate what we see from reality

Blinded, bonded, and confused

Selfishly in love with the Tempter and his muse

Sex, music, lies, and drugs

Music videos, booty, and thugs

Perverted, failing to quicken the pace

Meaningless words strewn out place

Eyes on the “prize”

Or so we thought

Failing to realize the precious things in life have yet to be bought

Concluding that we’ve arrived, and the journey is only beginning

People like you and I just got to bat we’re only in the first inning

Understand that the position in the game has yet to have been set

Manipulated by demons with charming faces who’ll never understand our regret

We've erred but turned back from our foolish ways....