In This Time
In every reckoning hour
We plea to the God of our fathers, the Jesus of our mothers
Beckoning the angels
In the same old voice
We call down our ancestors from the beginning of time
Counting ourselves in their number
In the moments before dawn
We mimic the soft sigh of our mothers
crying out for daughters lost in the great wood
In the twilight
We echo the bold tones of our fathers
bellowing to sons of sons floundering in the crosscurrents
Rise up with unflinching determination
Emerge from the darkened wood
Free yourself from the sucking flood
In the dark of ages night
Expose the hell of bondage to the gazing world
Strike a blow for freedom
Speak with an old voice
Light a new light
Rise Up!
©Sojourner Kincaid Rolle 1998
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