Still I Rise

[abu ghararah]

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

[البـارع]

I like reading the poem
thank you abu ghararah

[مــلك الحرف]

thank u my brother

nice poem

[ACME]

Thanks a lot . Appreciated

[M.o_o.N]

[ام بسمه]

Great
Thanks

[BloumagrieT]

Still I rise

Still I rise

Still I rise

That's wonderful

I loved it so much

Poems which raise our spirits to the ultimate hights

Thank you

abu ghararah

[if-you-were-me]

thanks alot
I really enjoyed it

keep the good work
we are waiting

[B.F.H]

شكراً لك على هذه الكلمات الرائعة

[داماس]

[فجوووري]

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