THOSE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR...

      (For Sterling, Margaret, Maya,  Nikki and Angela Louise)

Yesterday has come and gone; tomorrow will be to late;
          Now is the time and the time is now.
 Let us relaize that we are they who we have been waiting for;
          So let us exhale the apathy and inhale the readiness.
Ancestors, realize that you are the yeast to the unleaven youth;
          Now is the time for them to rise.
My children, know that now is the time and the time is now;
          Let us rise and claim the victory.
Know that you are the moans and groans of the loins of the blues;
          And the screaming echoes of jazz.
Know that you are the Gospel truth of our liberation;                                   Kings and Queensthat keep coming on:
This is what we must tell our children; they must know and believe
          We and they are those we've been waiting for.