Day 2: With This

Photo: tmerril.blogs.com

                                          Inspired by MLK

N’ with this faith,

Ama print my name

On the pages of history.

This faith calls me to take a stand.

N’ with this faith,

I arm myself with wit to withstand.

I shall not be victimized by circumstance.

I believe in the power of a dream

As this faith speaks peace.

N’ with this faith,

Humanity will remember my name

N’ declaim my fame in every age.

N’ with this faith,

I am a god in a shrine;

Ain’t nothing can stub my shine.

N’ with this faith,

I maintain my space;

Those who desire to reach and keep their place

On the mountaintop must take the hard way.

With this faith,

I am walking through the fire

And I’m coming out hard-boiled;

With this faith,

I strike water in the Sahara

N’ if I consume poison, I shall be reborn.

With this faith,

I exalt the treasures of blackness,

A geyser of enthusiasm, I reach for greatness.

N’ with this faith,

I will achieve the impossible,

Prove myself formidable

‘Cause I am untouchable.

With this faith,

I shall stymie the inevitable,

As I perform the incredible.

With this faith,

These eyes shall anticipate the invisible.

With this faith,

I walk into tomorrow

Wielding the nerve of a hero.

N’ with this faith,

I topple titans

With a sling and a stone.

N’ with this lil’ ebony light of mine

I’m a set the world on fire

As I let it shine.

N’ with this faith,

This also shall come to pass,

For this faith within is an organic compass.

N’ with this faith,

I clean the clock of unnumbered foes.

With this faith,

Tomorrow is this close;

With this faith,

I hold destiny in the palm of my hand;

I am the perfection of God’s master-plan.

N’ with this faith,

I intend to put the world on ice;

With this faith,

Still I rise.

I am the future,

I am a masterpiece of Mother Nature.

N’ with this faith,

I print my name on the walls of this terrestrial globe,

Somebody get me my robe

‘Cause with this faith,

I rule the world.

N’ with this faith…

Akpan