yes we can

A road for posterity to follow

That brought an end to anticipations, struggles, and sorrows

A road traveled by the great and mighty

A movement from a past of mediocrity to a future of a new positivity

A movement of liberation from that history

The history of being cast down upon, ridiculed, and seen as God’s backward species

We have headed and will be heading to greater victory

Showing we are not what they think, a prove to our enemies

Inferiority complex, pessimism, and prejudice being the icon of our retrospect

A life labeled with struggles, humiliations, jail, self-doubt and shame

Overcoming we have done, winning, and a new order is what the world should expect

We are finally here, a change that it will never be the same

A change that started for our liberation and emancipation

Is now our strength and cause of inspiration

With nothing the cause of an abhorred recession

A movement from Marcus Garvey, William Du Bois , Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King , Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela and Kwame Nkrumah

Is encapsulated into our contemporary Obama

To be continued by the unborn and unsung heroes

From the black-suited-flying-tie-wall-street negro

To the end-meet-making struggling negro in the ghettos of Soweto

From the echoes of “I have a dream”

To the trumpet blowing resonances of “yes we can”

We all can now scream

Because its time and direction of the new man.