'Triumphs of the Heart'

White, Black or Brown
We are
It!

We the people of
the United States
support great tasks
and purport the world
on its toes!

We acknowledge
wisdom and
integrity

We offer our
souls to
the U.S. to
establish a
peace, loving
heart so that we may all
live together
In harmony.

Just as our forefathers,
pilgrims and
harvesters sought
each other
to Build . . .

Our loving nation ...

The United States
of
America!

Change has come, America!
A new hope in turbulent times has appeared
With new ideas we revel as a nation renewed

Obama! Obama! Obama! they cheered on Inauguration Day
The children rejoiced.
Who? Children of multiple religious and ethnic backgrounds combined The Nation, united in hope and principle--the nation rejoiced.

The people waved Old Glory side to side
The day has come, the day has come
King once said: "Free at last. Free at last"

Today is a historic moment.
Not only for hope of economic improvement
But, for adherence to the principles of "Human Rights"
War's end—troops home—Peace achieved

We-the-Nation chose Obama because we chose change
Adherence to principle, equality assured and dignity maintained

As a people, "We the People," simply want a government
to provide for the common protection, the general welfare
Economic stability, protected Constitutional rights,
A sustainable environment, quality public education for all
And preservation of human rights with human dignity.

Obama! You are the beginning of the transition.
A progression back to the spirit of Democracy.
We revel in joy at your inauguration
Imagining the triumphs of the heart, the spirit of FREEDOM
And the prospects of hope that will become reality.

Yesterday, I crossed a vast ocean in the belly of a ship, in chains,
I watched brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers--babies die                                                       

But
I lived

Only to find myself enslaved in a strange land, with strange tongues and beliefs,
With people
Far different from my own

Sometimes praying to die, afraid to live

Yesterday, I was told that I am now free from the chains that bound me, free from what
Just a different set of chains
but chains nonetheless.

Yesterday, I was boy, nigger, wondering when I would be thought of as a man

Yesterday, I saw a young man lynched, I don't know why, what crime did he, could he commit.

Yesterday, I saw my sister raped and the man just laughed along with his friends.

Yesterday when I spoke up I was beaten down, then a man named King came along and helped me up and his brother Malcolm came and whispered to me "You are a man".

But Today, ah Today

I stand on the steps, in the city, that my ancestors built,

Today--I walk into the house they also built

Today, one journey ends and another begins,

Today, ah Today

They will call me leader, President,

Today, ah today--My head is high, my shoulders are straight, standing on the shoulders of all those that came before me

Smiling

People of the world united as one
Is it really that difficult?
A heart cries out to be loved
somewhere in the distance
a life lost
I can hear the voices
but I can't remember what it
once was like.
A sweet memory
the dancing of souls
 
I can touch the rain on your face
I can see the light upon your shore
when I need to believe, tell me
where lies the truth inside your pain
I have been searching for the reason why
still, I may never understand, I may never know

When you cry, I will guide you
When you fall, I will challenge the day

In a world where darkness could never sustain
you lift my spirit to a place of color
if it wasn't for the sun, I'd be lost forever
I feel cold now that my tears have run dry
When I close my eyes you still remind me
of who I am, alone without a name