I Am That I Am!

I preformed this in 1988.

I dressed in costume, 

delighted my eighth graders

with class participation.

Broke them out of that stiff, stifling

"European mode"

I permitted to them to LIVE, to  let their hair down.

Dance!

Sing!

I demanded they 

UN-WASH THEIR BRAIN!

My lesson was on Diversity, Pluralism, Inclusion.

It was a great , well thought out , Didactic lesson.

So, I thought.

Not long after this event 

I was run clean away.

The school was majority white,

majority wealthy.

My commute was long because my skin black,

my gender female.

I just want you to know, 

I know,

I could have  been anything 

I ever desired to be.

I could have been the great writer/wordsmith/brilliant artist/brilliant professor 

I desired to be.

If it had not been for the swine,

the vipers, 

the envious,  

jealous

LIARS

I have encountered

for

SIXTY-EIGHT

STRAIGHT  

YEARS!

 The GOD I serve,

Sees,

Knows,

Moves!

No dirt, no conjure, no ignorant imp shall ever prevent me from my Dreams!

Bow down satan!

"What Almighty GOD has for me,

IS FOR ME!"

BEAMING!!!