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IN THE AUTUMN OF HER LIFE—SHE STOOD
Beneath the cold gray skies, proudly she stood.
Stripped bare, naked to the world—arms outstretched
To the world; unashamed, poised in anchored dignity,
She stood.
Through the peep-holes of window shades, eyes
Reached out—touching her beauty:
This ancient lady—an aged old tree—glorified
In the autumn of her life;
Now I stand atop this scenic autumn hill, glorifying
My ebony Mother—victimized, stripped bare of God given
Rights to be; yet, with arms outstretched, poised in anchored dignity,
This ebony queen mastered each day of the autumn of her life—Proudly
An ebony Queen mastering each day in the vicious autumn of her life:
She stood.
