To Keeping On...Keeping On

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life

Ole uncle time has called me

To the  task; procrastination

has had its run.

Now is the time

and the time is now;

I must keep on the path

to the task ahead.

To stop in the middle

of present trials

and tribulations is to defeat

self; question the promise

of God of deliverance

from all evil, and my soaring

as if on the wings of eagles.

Let Jacob’s strength

be my climbing motivation;

the courage of Job,

my faithful determination.

Once more and again,

let it be realized that the weary

ancestors did more with less,

leaving me less to do with more.

With legacy on my side,

the pillars of faith and hope

in my heart, the hammer of persistence

in one hand and the nail of determination

in the other, nothing can turn me around.

I’m gone to keep on talking,

keep on walking, and fighting

until my freedom is won.

All praises due to the Most High

for granting another day

perpendicular to the level plane;

continuing the labor of love,

to bring closer, the total liberation

of a once enslaved people

who are now rooted and branching

in the midst of this waste hollowing land.