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This poem is a dialog poem.... |
| Power to the people 1st person: Power to the people 2nd Person: Power to my brother and sisters who strive for justice and just a little acknowledgement of the struggle. 1st and 2nd: Power to my non sisters 2nd: and brothers who got this mere image that we shall not come over this poverty, discrimination, and hatred. 1st: I wanna say power to the ones who stood up Rosa 2nd: Malcolm 1st: Rodney 2nd: Martin 1st: even Harriett 2nd: See these are not the only ones who fought the good fight take the Bloody March participants, people across Selma, Birmingham, Mississippi, the ones who held the sit-for any apparent reason. 1st: They once said that America is the most beautiful place, but they let all of this derogation get in the way. 2nd: And…we have failed them. 1st and 2nd: With the violence and hatred we let beat upon one another. |