The Day Before Poem by THEODORE MOSLEY

Justice opened her mouth and the words of equality were caught on the wind of her wings.

Opening the vault of depression we hear the cries of the street that flowed with blood.

The incarceration of our minds battled the rhetoric history of white supremacy that clothed us with their justice.

Rising out of the ashes like the Phoenix, we confiscated the domain of time and found brilliance in our walk.

The origin of our birth turned into slavery for their democracy of life; our democracy was their freedom.

Their contamination invoked the king and queen within us to superior thinking and our blackness was reborn.

Unchained and educated we conspired with the knowledge of the Sphinx; beyond the recognition of afflictions we are inventors.

Clothed with majesty and admiration our life becomes the United Nations of history.

Shattering the image of cotton pickers and shoe shine legends, our being catapulted their dreams of us.

The day before slavery we were astronauts; the day before the white sheets we were engineers; the day before civil unrest we became the POTUS!

Written by Theodore Mosley
January 26,2017