FALLING FROM THE MIDNIGHT SKY
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Falling from the midnight sky
I see visions of another time

I walk through the center of my fear
Not with head bowed or heart heavy laden.
I feel the power that dwells within the recesses of my soul

The potency of my ancestors flows through the blood in my veins.
I see that the gloom is merely a pause in the light

My children stand on a foundation layered with my two hands
Just as I bare the mark of my mother’s toil.
My mother shares the wisdom of eight decades
Exposing me to the courage to endure.

I see that history unfolds in the present
and is preserved through the exercise of the mind and the open arms
of a willing spirit.

Falling from the midnight sky
I hold dear my prayers and force the will to do

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