Above me.
To break this shadow
It was a long time ago.
But it was there then,
I am black.
And then the wall rose,
Help me to shatter this darkness,
Only the thick wall.
Langston Hughes
Of sun!
My hands!
In front of me,
I have almost forgotten my dream.
Rose slowly,
Bright like a sun--
Between me and my dream.
Shadow.
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Only the shadow.
I lie down in the shadow.
To smash this night,
Slowly,
Rose until it touched the sky--
As I Grew Older
Into a thousand whirling dreams
My dark hands!
The wall.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
My dream.
