IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE

 
TELL ME WHAT WORDS CAN YOU FIND OR MENTION

THE FACT THAT MANY CHOSE TO BE BLIND WITH INTENTION

THAT SLAVERY WAS THE BIGGEST CRIME FOR CONVICTION

AND SO NOW HAS COME THE TIME FOR REDEMPTION

 
WE ENDURED SEGREGATION, BECAUSE “THEY HATE US” WAS THE RULE

NO CHANCE FOR EDUCATION, TRYING TO TAKE US OUT OF SCHOOL

FACED WITH PLENTY SITUATIONS, TO MAKE US ACT A FOOL!

STILL AWAITING CONFIRMATION OF THAT FOURTY ACRES AND A MULE!

 
EQUALITY IN FACT, WE COULD ONLY PRAY FOR AND HOPE

INSTEAD VICIOUSLY ATTACKED, AND HUNG BY A ROPE!

 “ON THE BUS AT THE BACK”, OUR HISTORY BOOKS WROTE

AND BECAUSE WE WERE BLACK, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO VOTE!

 
WE HAVE FOUGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY TO, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC

 BUT ALSO FALSELY ACCUSED, PROSECUTED AND ARRESTED

 IT HAS TRULY BEEN HARD AND OUR FAITH HAS BEEN TESTED

 GLORY BE TO GOD FOR THIS DAY WE’RE BLESS WITH

THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE YEARS OF STRESS AND THE DRAMA

WE’VE CRIED MANY TEARS BECAUSE WE WERE LESS AND UNDER

WILL GOD ANSWER OUR PRAYERS, WE WERE LEFT TO WONDER?

AND SO THE TIME IS NOW HERE, WE ARE BLESSED WITH OBAMA!

TO HAVE A MOM WITH NO DAD, AND GROW UP WITHOUT ONE

GIVE LIFE THE BEST YOU HAD AND NOT KNOW THE OUTCOME

WITH COURAGE I’M GLAD, LIKE MARTIN AND MALCOLM

A DREAM I NEVER HAD, BUT THROUGH YOU I FOUND ONE

WE’VE WON GOLD METALS IN OLYMPICS, HEAVYWEIGHT TITLES AS BOXERS

WITH ACTORS WHO ARE GIFTED, WINNING ACADEMY AWARDS AND OSCARS

PROMINENT BLACKS WHO ARE SPLENDID AS SCIENTISTS, LAWYERS AND DOCTORS

NOW A PRESIDENT WHO’S ASCENDED, LEADING OUR COUNTRY TO PROSPER!

MOST FAMILIES AREN’T POOR BUT DON’T HAVE LOTS OF CASH

EACH DAY PAYING MORE FOR THE EXPENSIVE PRICE OF GAS

STILL FIGHTING A WAR, HOW MANY DAYS AND NITES TO LAST?

NOW, A BETTER FUTURE IN STORE, WE POSSIBLY NOW CAN HAVE!

 

FOR GOD TOLD US HIMSELF “MY PEOPLE I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU”

“YEAH I WALK THROUGH THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL”

LORD WE ALL HAVE FAULT AND BLAME AND WE ALL NEED YOU

IT’S TRULY TIME FOR CHANGE AND WE ALL NEED TO

OUR SKIN COLOR IS IRRELEVANT, “YOU AND I ARE CREATED EQUAL”

I WILL DEFEND MY COUNTRY AND RESIDENT AND DIE IF I NEED TO! 

IT HAS BEEN PROVEN AND EVIDENT, THAT IF I TRY I MIGHT REACH YOU

IT IS ONLY HEAVEN SENT, THAT WE WILL RISE AS A PEOPLE!

 
WE ARE HIGHLY FAVORED IT SEEMS WITH ALL WE’VE COME THRU

AND TO STAY UNITED AS A TEAM IS WHAT WE MUST DO

NOW ALL THAT TOMORROW MAY BRING IS ENTIRELY ON YOU

DR. KING HAD A DREAM AND IT HAS FINALLY COME TRUE!

IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE

by the Uknown Poet