Poets' Corner
Rally Round
by Lasana M. Sekou
And we must not forget
How to sharpen our spears
To order them like lasers
To know beyond belief -
The rebels are still in the fields.
Hear us
Seeding voices
Rising resistance songs
We did not leave
Look into the Truth of Youth and Age
And see us coming
In immortal refrain
We have inherited life
In the living issue of the people
The Revolutionaries are here.
We remain
The sweat of the first morning dew
Grains of wheat
Arrows of living gods
Constant images in the yard
Confirmations
Conspiracies of dark old men
Uprisings
On the route to revolution
In the tradition of always readiness
Rising from ashes and embers
Like winds above the hills
Simpre, returning to the source.
We are the progeny of the land
The answer to their anguish
The function for their futures
Oye
The high tree says he sees far
The walking seed says
He sees farther
I tell you
Behind the mountains
Are mountains growing
These are crucial themes to remember
And this a critical thing to know,
Iron will cut iron.
Lasana M. Sekou
Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.
Poem taken from Maroon Lives, Lasana's fourth published book of poetry,
